Jeremiah 51:40

40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.

Jeremiah 51:40 in Other Translations

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.

40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats to be sacrificed.

40 "I'll haul these 'lions' off to the slaughterhouse like the lambs, rams, and goats, never to be heard of again.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats.

Jeremiah 51:40 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 51:40

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter
To the place of slaughter; who shall be able to make no more resistance than lambs. This explains what is meant by being made drunk, and sleeping a perpetual sleep, even destruction and death: like rams with he goats;
denoting the promiscuous destruction of the prince and common people together.

Jeremiah 51:40 In-Context

38 Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs.

39 But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the LORD.

40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.

41 “How Sheshak will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!

42 The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 39:18