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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.

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Bible References

Their heat

Jeremiah 25:27
Then the Lord said to me, "Tell them that the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, 'Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can't get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.'
Isaiah 21:4
My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.
Isaiah 22:12
At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
Daniel 5:1
King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.
Nahum 1:10
Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
Nahum 3:11
You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

And sleep

Jeremiah 51:57
"I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her governors, leaders, and warriors. They will fall asleep forever and never wake up," says the King whose name is the Lord who rules over all.
Psalm 13:3
Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, or else I will die!
Psalm 76:5
The bravehearted were plundered; they "fell asleep." All the warriors were helpless.

General references

Jeremiah 25:16
When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them."
Daniel 5:30
And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.

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