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.

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

For while {they be} folden together {as} thorns, and while they are drunken {as} drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

Consider {and} hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the {sleep of} death;

Make ye him drunken: for he magnified {himself} against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. {heart...: or, mind wandered} {turned: Heb. put}

Consider {and} hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the {sleep of} death;

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

Make ye him drunken: for he magnified {himself} against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, {and} anoint the shield.

In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

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.

For while {they be} folden together {as} thorns, and while they are drunken {as} drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

The heart of the wise {is} in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools {is} in the house of mirth.

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, {he is} a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and {is} as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: {Yea...: or, How much more}

Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell {in the dust}: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth {them}. {nobles: or, valiant ones}

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. {heart...: or, mind wandered} {turned: Heb. put}

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, {which} thou shalt not know. {from...: Heb. the morning thereof} {put: Heb. expiate}

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

A sword {is} upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise {men}.