Jeremiah 51:39

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּחֻמָּ֞ם אָשִׁ֣ית אֶת־מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֗ם וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים֙ לְמַ֣עַן יַעֲלֹ֔זוּ וְיָשְׁנ֥וּ שְׁנַת־עוֹלָ֖ם וְלֹ֣א יָקִ֑יצוּ נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

In-ḥummām ʾāšît ʾet-mištêhem and-hiškartîm so-that yaʿălōzû and-yāšnû šənat-ʿôlām and-not yāqîṣû nəʾum YHWH

Grammar Details

• *ḥummām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their heat/their excitement
• *ʾāšît*: verb, Qal imperfect, 1st singular - I will set/I will prepare
• *mištêhem*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their feasts/their banquets
• *hiškartîm*: verb, Hiphil perfect, 1st singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - I will make them drunk
• *yaʿălōzû*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd plural - they will rejoice/exult
• *yāšnû*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd plural - they will sleep
• *šənat*: noun, feminine singular construct - sleep of
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - everlasting/forever/perpetuity
• *yāqîṣû*: verb, Hiphil imperfect, 3rd plural - they will awake
• *nəʾum*: noun, masculine singular construct - declaration of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh

Word Meanings

• *ḥummām*: their heat/their excitement/when they are heated
• *ʾāšît*: I will set/I will prepare/I will establish
• *mištêhem*: their feasts/their banquets/their drinking parties
• *hiškartîm*: I will make them drunk/I will intoxicate them
• *yaʿălōzû*: they will rejoice/they will exult/they will be jubilant
• *šənat-ʿôlām*: perpetual sleep/eternal sleep/sleep of eternity

Referenced Verses

• Jer 51:57 : 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
• Jer 25:27 : 27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
• Jer 48:26 : 26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
• Dan 5:1-4 : 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
• Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
• Nah 1:10 : 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
• Nah 3:11 : 11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
• Ps 13:3 : 3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
• Ps 76:5-6 : 5 The stouthearted are spoiled{H8709)}, they have slept{H8804)} their sleep: and none of the men of might have found{H8804)} their hands. 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep{H8737)}.
• Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
• Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.