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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.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

In their heat ... - While, like so many young lions, they are in the full glow of excitement over their prey, God prepares for them a drin…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

In their heat I will make their feasts ... —The words are stern and bitter in their irony. When the revelers are hot with…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

Here, he also describes the manner in which Babylon was taken. From this we learn that the Prophet did not speak obscurely or ambiguously, but show…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

In their heat I will make their feasts I will order it that their feasts shall be in the time of heat, that so they may be made dru…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…

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