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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 51:57

Drunk — A plain allusion to the posture the king of Babylon, and the thousand of his lords were in, when their city was taken while they were drinking wine in the bowls that were brought from the temple at Jerusalem.

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See also Jeremiah 51:57 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 57. _I WILL MAKE DRUNK HER PRINCES_] Jeremiah 51:39....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon, her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the statement “thus far are the words of Jere...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:58. BABYLON. This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah an...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _her governors and her deputies_ Cp. Jeremiah 51:23_; Jeremiah 51:28_, and for the latter part see on Jeremiah 51:39....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WILL MAKE DRUNK, &C.— See Jeremiah 51:39. This refers to the same remarkable circumstance in the capture of Babylon....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. The Final Pronouncement Against Babylon Jeremiah 51:54-58 TRANSLATION (54) Hark! A cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans. (55) For the LORD is destroying Babylon,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL MAKE DRUNK HER PRINCES. — The imagery is repeated from Jeremiah 51:39, and carries out the thought of Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 25:27. On the list of officers see Note on...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ֠ הִשְׁכַּרְתִּי שָׂרֶ֨יהָ וַ חֲכָמֶ֜יהָ פַּחֹותֶ֤יהָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:1 "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."- Jeremiah 50:2 THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to those of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I will (h) 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 L...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Drunk, with the wine of fury, ver. 39., and chap. xxv. 26._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If the Reader will compare what is here said, with what is said of mystic Babylon in the New Testament, he will soon perceive what a striking resemblance there is between things temporal and spiritual...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah pursues the same subject, he said yesterday that desolators would come to destroy Babylon. He now confirms this by a similitude; and God himself speaks, _I will inebriate _the princes and cap...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 l...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice_ “When cities are populous, they are of course noisy: see Isaiah 22:2. Silence is therefore a mark of depopulation; and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, the counselors of the kingdom, HER CAPTAINS AND HER RULERS AND HER MIGHTY MEN, all those who were at the head of the nation, both in peace and in wa...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secur...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Drunken men use to fall asleep. The prophet speaks here metaphorically. His meaning is, that the Lord would fill them with the wine of his fury, mentioned JEREMIAH 30:15,16, and upon the drinking of i...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:57 drunk H7937 (H8689) princes H8269 wise H2450 governors H6346 deputies H5461 men H1368 sleep H3462

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A PROPHETIC DESCRIPTION OF THE FULFILMENT OF YHWH'S WORD SPOKEN AGAINST BABYLON AND CONFIRMATION THAT IT WOULD BE SO (JEREMIAH 51:54). The section dealing with YHWH's word against Babylon, which began...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon, continued. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah. CONCLUSION: Let no nation think it will exempt them from God's judgment that they have been execu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 51:7. _Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah._ All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, applaud...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:57 MAKE DRUNK. See Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 51:38

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For _Chronological Notes,_ see foregoing chapter. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 51:27. “_The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas_.” These nations of Western As...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 51:1 AGAINST THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. The Hebrew has _lēb-kāmai_, which is _Kasdim_, or _Chaldea, _written in the cypher called Athbash (see...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 5:1; Daniel 5:30; Daniel 5:31; Habakkuk 2:15; Isaiah 21:4;...

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