Jeremiah 51:57
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.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 51:39 repeats the same prophecy: God makes Babylon's leaders drunk to sleep a perpetual sleep, reinforcing the certainty of judgment.
In Jeremiah 51:30, Babylon's mighty men become weak — complementing the drunken sleep that makes them fall.
In Jeremiah 25:27, the same 'drink and fall' imagery applies to nations drinking God's wrath, showing the broader prophetic pattern behind Babylon's judgment.
In Jeremiah 48:26, Moab is made drunk as judgment — the same 'make drunk' imagery used against Babylon here.
In Jeremiah 50:35, a sword comes upon Babylon's princes and wise men — the same groups made drunk and killed here.
Revelation 18:6 calls for Babylon to receive double from the cup she mixed, echoing the cup of wrath motif in Jeremiah 51:57 against Babylon.
Habakkuk 2:15-17 pronounces woe on Babylon for making others drunk, then describes Babylon itself being made to drink God's wrath — a direct parallel.
Daniel 5:30 records Belshazzar's death that very night, directly fulfilling the 'perpetual sleep' prophecy of Jeremiah 51:57.
Daniel 5:1-4 shows the actual feast where Belshazzar drinks from temple vessels, fulfilling the pattern of drunkenness before judgment in Jeremiah.
Psalm 76:6 continues the sleep metaphor: 'chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep' — directly parallel to the perpetual sleep of Babylon's leaders.
Psalm 76:5 uses the same 'sleep' imagery for God's defeat of enemies — 'the stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep.'
Nahum 3:18 uses the same 'sleep' euphemism for dead leaders in judgment against Assyria, mirroring Babylon's fate here.
Habakkuk 2:16 also depicts Babylon drinking the cup of the LORD's wrath—the same drunkenness that leads to sleep in judgment.
Revelation 14:10 depicts drinking the wine of God's wrath—the same cup imagery used for Babylon's judgment here.
In Psalm 13:3, the plea 'sleep the sleep of death' asks to avoid death — here God forces that sleep as judgment.
In Isaiah 44:25, God makes diviners mad and turns wise men backward — similar to making Babylon's wise men drunk.
Isaiah 21:5 depicts Babylon feasting before attack, echoing the feast that precedes the drunken sleep of judgment in Jeremiah 51:57.
Nahum 1:10 uses the same drunkard imagery for Nineveh's judgment, paralleling the motif of divine judgment through drunkenness.
In Nahum 3:11, Nineveh is made drunk as judgment — the same divine punishment imagery used against Babylon.