Jeremiah 51:39

Jeremiah 51:39

37 ^aBabylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
^bAn astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions’ whelps.

39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
^aI will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.

40 “I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.

41 “Oh, how ^aSheshach is taken!
Oh, how ^bthe praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!

42 ^aThe sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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In their heat I will make their feasts—In the midst of their being heated with wine, I will give them "their" potions,—a very different cup to drink, but one which is their due, the wine cup of My stupefying wrath (Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 49:12; Isaiah 51:17; Lamentations 4:21).

rejoice, and sleep . . . perpetual, etc.—that they may exult, and in the midst of their jubilant exultation sleep the sleep of death (Jeremiah 51:57; Isaiah 21:4-5).

Jeremiah 51:38-39

The capture of Babylon was effected on the night of a festival in honor of its idols.

roar . . . yell—The Babylonians were shouting in drunken revelry (compare Daniel 5:4).

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