Jeremiah 51:40

40 I will take them to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and 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 Its people are like roaring lions and growling lion cubs.

39 When they are excited, I will prepare a feast for them and make them drunk so that they will shout and laugh. They will fall into a deep sleep and never wake up again, declares the LORD.

40 I will take them to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.

41 "Sheshach has been captured. Babylon, the city that the whole world praised, has been taken captive.

42 What a horrifying sight Babylon will be to the nations! The sea will rise over Babylon, and its roaring waves will cover it.