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Summary
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.
And sleep
General references
Bible References
Their heat
Jeremiah 25:27
And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Isaiah 21:4
My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.
Nahum 1:10
For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
Nahum 3:11
And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.
And sleep
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.
Psalm 13:3
Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
Psalm 76:5
Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.
General references
Jeremiah 25:16
And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.