Jeremiah 51:39
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.
Cross-reference
In Jeremiah 51:57, the same prophecy is repeated with added detail: officials and warriors drink and sleep a perpetual sleep.
Jeremiah 51:55 depicts Babylon's destruction as stilling her roar; here the Lord makes them drunk to sleep permanently.
Jeremiah 25:27 commands nations to drink and fall to rise no more — the same judgment of drunken sleep applied to Babylon.
In Jeremiah 25:16, nations drink from the cup of wrath and stagger — the same intoxicating judgment that leads to sleep in 51:39.
In Jeremiah 48:26, Moab is made drunk as punishment — a parallel use of drunkenness to signify divine judgment on pride.
In Psalm 76:5, God causes the stouthearted to 'sink into sleep' — the same judgment theme of enemies dying in their sleep.
In Psalm 76:6, the rebuke of God leaves rider and horse stunned — continuing the same scene of divine judgment causing sleep or stupor.
Isaiah 21:5 depicts Babylon's feast preparation — the very feast God turns into judgment here.
Daniel 5:1-4 recounts Belshazzar's drunken feast when Babylon fell — fulfilling the prophecy of drunken sleep.
Daniel 5:1-4 recounts Belshazzar's drunken feast when Babylon fell — fulfilling the prophecy of drunken sleep.
In Nahum 1:10, the same image of drunkards being consumed like stubble reinforces God's judgment on arrogant nations.
In Nahum 3:11, Nineveh also becomes drunk as judgment — a parallel motif of divine retribution through intoxication.
Nahum 3:18 uses sleep as death for Assyria's shepherds; here Babylon's leaders sleep perpetually after drunkenness.
Habakkuk 2:5 speaks of wine's treachery characterizing Babylon's greed; here the Lord uses wine to make them drunk to death.