Yirmeyah 51:40

40 I will bring them down like lambs litvo’ach (to the slaughter, see Isaiah 53:7), like rams with male goats.

Yirmeyah 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.

Yirmeyah 51:40 In-Context

38 They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl as cubs of arayot (lions).

39 In their excitement I will prepare their mishtim (feasts), and I will make them shikkor, that they may rejoice, and sleep shenat olam (a perpetual sleep), and never awake, saith Hashem.

40 I will bring them down like lambs litvo’ach (to the slaughter, see Isaiah 53:7), like rams with male goats.

41 How is Sheshach [Babylon] taken! And how is the tehillat kol ha’aretz seized! How is Bavel become a horror to behold among the Goyim!

42 The yam (sea) will arise over Bavel; she is covered with the tumult of the waves thereof.