Jeremiah 51:40

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams 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 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.

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

41 How is Sheshakh taken! and the praise of the whole eretz seized! how is Bavel become a desolation among the nations!

42 The sea is come up on Bavel; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.