Jer 51:39 | NETfull | STEP | When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” says the Lord .

Jeremiah 51:39

39 When their appetites are all stirred up, ^{▼▼ Heb “When they are hot.”}
I will set out a banquet for them.
I will make them drunk
so that they will pass out, ^{▼▼ The translation follows the suggestion of KBL 707 s.v. עָלַז and a number of modern commentaries (e.g., Bright, J. A. Thompson, and W. L. Holladay) in reading יְעֻלְּפוּ (ye’ull^efu) for יַעֲלֹזוּ (ya’alozu) in the sense of “swoon away” or “grow faint” (see KBL 710 s.v. עָלַף Pual). That appears to be the verb that the LXX (the Greek version) was reading when they translated καρωθῶσιν (karōqōsin, “they will be stupefied”). For parallel usage KBL cites Isa 51:20. This fits the context much better than “they will exult” in the Hebrew text.}
they will fall asleep forever,
they will never wake up,” ^{▼▼ The central figure here is the figure of the cup of the Lord’s wrath (cf. 25:15–29, especially v. 26). Here the Babylonians have been made to drink so deeply of it that they fall into a drunken sleep from which they will never wake up (i.e., they die, death being compared to sleep [cf. Ps 13:3 (13:4 HT); 76:5 (76:6 HT); 90:5]). Compare the usage in Jer 51:57 for this same figure.}
says the Lord. ^{▼▼ Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”}