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Jeremiah 51:40

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40 "I will bring them down like lambs 1to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.
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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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Jeremiah 51:40 In-Context

38 "They will roar together like young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.
39 "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD .
40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.
41 "How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
42 "The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

Cross References 1

  • 1. Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 50:27

Footnotes 1

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