Old Testament · VERSE 39

Jeremiah 51:39

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In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

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Jeremiah 51:39 in context

Jeremiah 51:37

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:38

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

Jeremiah 51:39SELECTED VERSE

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:40

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

Jeremiah 51:41

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

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