Jeremiah 51:40

40 "I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and 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 will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions.

39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep {an everlasting sleep}, and they will not wake up," {declares} Yahweh.

40 "I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats.

41 How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an [object of] horror among the nations!

42 The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves.