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 lions, They shall growl like lions' whelps.

39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake," says the Lord.

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

41 "Oh, how Sheshach is taken! Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!

42 The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.