Jeremiah 51:39

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

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  • Jer 51:57 : 57 And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.
  • Jer 25:27 : 27 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.
  • Jer 48:26 : 26 Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.
  • Dan 5:1-4 : 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them. 3 Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them. 4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
  • Nah 3:11 : 11 And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.
  • Ps 13:3 : 3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
  • Ps 76:5-6 : 5 Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble. 6 At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.
  • Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me. 5 They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes. 14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

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  • Jer 51:57
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    57And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.

  • Jer 51:40
    82%

    40I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.

  • Jer 51:38
    75%

    38They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

  • Jer 13:13
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    13Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.

  • Jer 25:15-17
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    74%

    15For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.

    16And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.

    17Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;

  • Jer 25:27-28
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    27And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

    28And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.

  • Isa 29:9-10
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    9Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

    10For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Ps 78:65
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    65Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

  • Obad 1:16
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    16For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.

  • Hos 7:14
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    14And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

  • Hos 2:11
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    11And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

  • Isa 63:6
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    6And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

  • Isa 56:12
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    12Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

  • Jer 31:13-14
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    13Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.

    14I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

  • Ezek 39:19
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    19You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Jer 49:37
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    37And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:

  • Jer 51:7
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    7Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.

  • Isa 22:13
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    13But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

  • Zeph 1:12-13
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    12And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

    13And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Isa 49:26
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    26And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

  • Amos 6:7
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    7So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.

  • Isa 25:6
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    6And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.

  • Isa 24:9
    70%

    9There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • Isa 43:17
    70%

    17Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.

  • Zech 9:15
    70%

    15The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    70%

    7For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

  • Jer 9:15
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    15So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

  • Jer 25:10
    70%

    10And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

  • Hos 9:5
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    5What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Isa 51:17
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    17Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

  • Hos 7:6
    70%

    6For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • Jer 48:26
    70%

    26Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.

  • Isa 51:20-22
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    20Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

    21So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:

    22This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:

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  • Jer 25:37
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    37And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Ps 69:23
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    23Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

  • Jer 50:10
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    10And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.