Jeremiah 51:40

40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with hegoats.

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 yell as lions' whelps.

39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake," saith the LORD.

40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with hegoats.

41 "How Sheshach is taken! And how the praise of the whole earth is surprised! How Babylon has become an astonishment among the nations!

42 The sea has come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.