Jeremiah 51:39
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39 When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink
and make them drunk, until they become merry
and then sleep a perpetual sleep
and never wake, says the Lord.(A)
Jeremiah 51:57
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57 I will make her officials and her sages drunk,
also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake,
says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.(A)
Jeremiah 25:27
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27 Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink; get drunk and vomit; fall and rise no more because of the sword that I am sending among you.(A)
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Nahum 3:11
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Footnotes
- 3.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Nahum 1:10
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10 Like thorns they are entangled;
like drunkards they are drunk;
they are consumed like dry straw.(A)
Isaiah 22:12-14
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12 On that day the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for baldness and putting on sackcloth,(A)
13 but instead there was joy and festivity,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating meat and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”(B)
14 The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,”
says the Lord God of hosts.(C)
Daniel 5:30
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30 That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.(A)
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Daniel 5:1-4
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Belshazzar’s Feast
5 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.(A)
2 Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring in the vessels of gold and silver that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.(B) 3 So they brought in the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.(C)
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Jeremiah 48:26
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26 Make him drunk because he magnified himself against the Lord; let Moab wallow in his vomit; he, too, shall become a laughingstock.(A)
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Isaiah 21:4-5
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4 My mind reels; horror has appalled me;
the twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.(A)
5 They prepare the table;
they spread the rugs;
they eat; they drink.
Rise up, commanders;
oil the shield!(B)
Psalm 76:5-6
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5 The courageous were stripped of their spoil;
they sank into sleep;
none of the troops
was able to lift a hand.(A)
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both rider and horse lay stunned.
Psalm 13:3
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3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God!
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,(A)
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