John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts." — Jeremiah 51:57 (ASV)
And I will make drunk her princes
With the wine of divine wrath; that is, slay them; though there may be an allusion to their being drunk with wine at the feast Belshazzar made for his thousand lords; who are the princes here intended, together with the king and his royal family, (Daniel 5:1Daniel 5:4) ;
and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men :
the counsellors of state, priests, magicians, and astrologers; officers in the army, superior and inferior ones; and the soldiers and warriors, whom Cyrus and his men slew; when they entered the city; compare with this (Revelation 19:18) ;
and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake ;
be all asleep in their drunken fits, and be slain therein; and so never wake, or live more. The Targum is, ``and they shall die the second death, and not come into the world to come;'' (See Gill on Jeremiah 51:39);
saith the king, whose name [is] the Lord of hosts ;
the King of kings and Lord of lords; the Lord of armies in heaven and earth; and can do, and does, what he pleases in both worlds.