Jeremiah 51:40

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

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 will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they revel. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. [This is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration.

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

41 How Sheshach has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

42 The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its turbulent waves.

Footnotes

• [a] Isa 34:6; Ezk 39:18