Lexicon :: Strong's H7937 - šāḵar

‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood,

And My sword will devour flesh,

With the blood of the slain and the captives,

From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.’

(The Bridegroom)

“I have come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride;

I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words].

I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;

I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends;

Drink and drink deeply, O lovers.”

Stop and take some time and wonder [at this prophecy],

Blind yourselves and be blinded [at its fulfillment by your spiritual incompetence].

They are drunk, but not from wine;

They stagger, but not from strong drink.

“I will make those who oppress you consume their own flesh [in mutually destructive wars]

And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine;

And all [fn]mankind will know [with a knowledge grounded in personal experience] that I, the LORD, am your Savior

And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Therefore, now hear this, you who are afflicted,

Who are drunk, but not with wine [but overwhelmed by the wrath of God].

“I trampled the peoples in My anger

And made them drunk with [the cup of] My wrath,

And I spilled their lifeblood on the earth.”

“Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD’S hand,

Intoxicating all the earth.

The nations drank her wine;

Therefore the nations have gone mad.

“When they are [fn]inflamed [with wine and lust during their drinking bouts], I will prepare them a feast [of My wrath]

And make them drunk, that they may rejoice

And may sleep a perpetual sleep

And not wake up,” declares the LORD.

“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,

Her governors and her commanders and her mighty warriors;

They will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”

Says the King—the LORD of hosts is His name.

Rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom,

Who lives in the land of Uz.

But the cup [of the wine of God’s wrath] will pass to you as well;

You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

You too [Nineveh] will become drunk [with the cup of God’s wrath];

You will be hidden.

You too [Nineveh] will search [in vain] for a refuge from the enemy.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to you who make your neighbors drink,

Who mix in your venom to make them drunk

So that you may look at their nakedness!