“I will make her princes, her wise men,her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk.They will sleep a perpetual sleep,and not wake up,”says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.”
Jeremiah 51:57 (WEB)
Context Reading
55For Yahweh lays Babylon waste,and destroys out of her the great voice!Their waves roar like many waters.The noise of their voice is uttered. 56For the destroyer has come on her,even on Babylon.Her mighty men are taken.Their bows are broken in pieces,for Yahweh is a God of retribution.He will surely repay. 57I will make her princes, her wise men,her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk.They will sleep a perpetual sleep,and not wake up,”says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. 58Yahweh of Armies says:“The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown.Her high gates will be burned with fire.The peoples will labor for vanity,and the nations for the fire;and they will be weary.” 59The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.