Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

When they're excited I'll serve them their banquet, and make them drunk until they're merry. They'll sleep forever and won't wake up," declares the LORD.

New American Standard Bible

“When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant
And may sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast,
and I will make them drunk so that they revel.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

A Conservative Version

When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says LORD.

American Standard Version

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

Amplified


“When they are inflamed [with wine and lust during their drinking bouts], I will prepare them a feast [of My wrath]
And make them drunk, that they may rejoice
And may sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

Darby Translation

When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

In their heat I will set their drinkings, and I made them drunken so that they shall exult, and sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall not rouse up, says Jehovah.

King James 2000

In their excitement I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep {an everlasting sleep}, and they will not wake up," {declares} Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and never awaken, says Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

In their heat I shall set drink before them, and they shall be drunken for joy: Then shall they sleep an everlasting sleep, and never wake, sayeth the LORD.

NET Bible

When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up," says the Lord.

New Heart English Bible

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake," says the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age-abiding sleep and not wake, - Declareth Yahweh.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In their heat
חם 
Chom 
Usage: 11

I will make
שׁית 
Shiyth 
Usage: 83

משׁתּה 
Mishteh 
Usage: 46

and I will make them drunken
שׁכר 
Shakar 
Usage: 19

עלז 
`alaz 
Usage: 16

and sleep
ישׁן 
Yashen 
Usage: 19

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

שׁנא שׁנה 
Shehah 
Usage: 23

and not wake
קוּץ 
Quwts 
Usage: 22

נאם 
N@'um 
Usage: 376

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

38 They'll roar together like young lions; they'll growl like lion cubs. 39 When they're excited I'll serve them their banquet, and make them drunk until they're merry. They'll sleep forever and won't wake up," declares the LORD. 40 "I'll bring them down like lambs for the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

Cross References

Jeremiah 51:57

I'll make their leaders, their wise men, their governors, their deputies, and their warriors drunk so that they sleep forever and don't wake up," declares the King whose name is the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

Jeremiah 25:27

"You are to say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Drink, get drunk, and vomit! Fall down and don't get up because of the sword I'm sending among you."'

Psalm 13:3

Look at me! Answer me, LORD, my God! Give light to my eyes! Otherwise, I will sleep in death;

Psalm 76:5-6

Brave men were plundered while they slumbered in their sleep. All the men of the army were immobilized.

Isaiah 21:4-5

And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble.

Isaiah 22:12-14

On that day the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving heads and wearing sackcloth.

Jeremiah 48:26

"Make him drunk for he has exalted himself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he will be the object of mocking.

Daniel 5:1-4

King Belshazzar put on a great festival for a thousand of his officials. He joined all one thousand of them in getting drunk.

Daniel 5:30

That night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was killed,

Nahum 1:10

Indeed, while tangled as by a thorn bush, while drunken as by a strong drink, the Ninevites will be burned like dry straw.

Nahum 3:11

You will also become drunk. You will disappear, trying to hide from your enemies.

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