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Jeremías 51:39
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Cuando entren en calor, les serviré su banquete y los embriagaré, para que se diviertan, duerman un sueño eterno y no despierten —declara el Señor .
En su calor les pondr� sus banquetes; y les har� que se embriaguen, para que se alegren, y duerman eterno sue�o y no despierten, dice Jehov�.
En su calor les pondr� sus banquetes; y les har� que se embriaguen, para que se alegren, y duerman eterno sue�o, y no despierten, dijo el SE�OR.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
their heat: Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 21:4, Isaiah 21:5, Isaiah 22:12-14, Daniel 5:1-4, Daniel 5:30, Nahum 1:10, Nahum 3:11
and sleep: Jeremiah 51:57, Psalms 13:3, Psalms 76:5, Psalms 76:6
Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 7:4 - the heart Isaiah 47:11 - thou shalt not be Jeremiah 25:16 - General Jeremiah 48:26 - ye him Jeremiah 50:35 - upon her princes Jeremiah 51:55 - destroyed Nahum 3:18 - Thy shepherds Habakkuk 2:5 - he transgresseth
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In their heat I will make their feasts,.... I will order it that their feasts shall be id the time of heat, that so they may be made drunk; so Jarchi: or when they are hot with feasting, I will disturb their feast by a handwriting on the wall; so Kimchi; see Daniel 5:1; to which he directs: or when they are inflamed with wine, I will put something into their banquets, into their cups; I will mingle their potions with the wine of my wrath; and, while they are feasting, ruin shall come upon them; and so it was, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, that the city of Babylon was taken, while the inhabitants were feasting; and this account agrees with Daniel 5:1. This text is quoted in the Talmud c, where the gloss on it says,
"this is said concerning Belshazzar and his company, when they returned from a battle with Darius and Cyrus, who besieged Babylon, and Belshazzar overcame that day; and they were weary and hot, and sat down to drink, and were drunken, and on that day he was slain;''
and the Targum is,
"I will bring tribulation upon them:''
and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice; in a riotous and revelling way; or that they may be mad and tremble, as R. Jonah, from the use of the word d in the Arabic language, interprets it; so drunken men are oftentimes like mad men, deprived of their senses, and their limbs tremble through the strength of liquor; and here it signifies, that the Chaldeans should be so intoxicated with the cup of divine wrath and vengeance, that they should be at their wits' end; in the utmost horror and trembling; not able to stand, or defend themselves; and so the Targum,
"they shall be like drunken men, that they may not be strong;''
but as weak as they:
and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord; not only fall asleep as drunken men do, and awake again; but sleep, and never awake more; or die, and not live again, until the resurrection morn; no doubt many of the Chaldeans, being in a literal sense drunk and asleep when the city was taken, were slain in their sleep, and never waked again. The Targum is,
"and die the second death, and not live in the world to come;''
see Revelation 21:8.
c T. Bab. Megilia, fol. 15. 2. d "furor ac repentina mors", Camus apud Golium, col. 1634. "tremor, timor mortis aegroto contingens", Giggeius apud Castel. col. 2772. So R. Sol. Urbiu. Ohel Moed, fol. 32. 1. interprets the words of trembling.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In their heat ... - While, like so many young lions, they are in the full glow of excitement over their prey, God prepares for them a drinking-bout to end in the sleep of death. Compare Daniel 5:1.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 51:39. In their heat I will make their feasts — It was on the night of a feast day, while their hearts were heated with wine and revelry, that Babylon was taken; see Daniel 5:1-3. This feast was held in honour of the goddess Sheshach, (or perhaps of Bel,) who is mentioned, Jeremiah 51:41, as being taken with her worshippers. As it was in the night the city was taken, many had retired to rest, and never awoke; slain in their beds, they slept a perpetual sleep.
