Jeremiah 51:57
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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.I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
In other translations
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.I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Hebrew words
וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּיvehishkartiand I will make drunkH7937שָׂרֶיהָsareihaofficials itsH8269וַחֲכָמֶיהָvachakhameihaand wise [people] itsH2450פַּחוֹתֶיהָpachoteihagovernors itsH6346וּסְגָנֶיהָuseganeihaand officials itsH5461וְגִבּוֹרֶיהָvegiboreihaand warriors itsH1368וְיָשְׁנוּveyashenuand they will sleepH3462שְׁנַת־shenat-a sleep ofH8142עוֹלָםolamperpetuityH5769וְלֹאvelo'and notH3808יָקִיצוּyakitzuthey will awakeH6974נְאֻם־ne'um-[the] utterance ofH5002הַמֶּלֶךְhamelekhthe kingH4428יְהוָהyahweh[is] YahwehH3068צְבָאוֹתtzeva'otof hostsH6635שְׁמוֹ׃ סshemoname hisH8034
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
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- Jeremiah 46:18As I live, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
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- Jeremiah 48:15Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
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- Isaiah 21:4-54 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.4 My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror. 5 They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
- Revelation 18:9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
- Nahum 1:10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
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- Malachi 1:14But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.
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