Jeremiah 51:40

Jeremiah 51:40 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
• New International Version (NIV)“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“I will bring them down Like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams with male goats.

Context of Jeremiah 51:40

38They (the Chaldean lords) will be roaring together [before their sudden capture] like young lions [roaring over their prey], They (the princes) will be growling like lions’ cubs. 39When they are inflamed [with wine and lust during their drinking bouts], I will prepare them a feast [of My wrath] And make them drunk, that they may rejoice And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up,” declares the Lord. “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats. 41“How Sheshak (Babylon) has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror among the nations! 42The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

Jeremiah 51:40 word by word

אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם כְּכָרִ֣ים לִטְב֑וֹחַ כְּאֵילִ֖ים עִם־עַתּוּדִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I will bring them downיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• like lambsכַּרkar · ramH3733
• to the slaughterטָבַחţâbach · to slaughterH2873
• like ramsאַ֫יִל'ayil · ramH352
• with he goatsעַתּוּד‛attûd ‛attûd · goatH6260

Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:40

• Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls [her strength—her young men]; Let them go down to the slaughter! Woe (judgment is coming) to the Chaldeans, for their day has come, The time of their punishment.
• Psalms 37:20But the wicked (ungodly) will perish, And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures and like the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke], They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
• Psalms 44:22But for Your sake we are killed all the day long; We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Isaiah 34:6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood [from sacrifices], It drips with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah (Edom’s capital city) And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
• Ezekiel 39:18You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan [east of the Jordan].

Commentaries on Jeremiah 51:40

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 40Lambs … rams … he goats - i. e., all classes of the population (see Isaiah 34:6 note).Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 38-40The Lord announced he would use wine to change the lion, which once terrorized and destroyed nations (Jeremiah 5:6; 25:38; 49:19), into a lamb that is easy to control. Wine as a tool of wrath was usually symbolic (Jeremiah 25:15–29), but here it was real (see Daniel 5).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-641. in the midst of them that rise ... against me--literally, "in the heart" of them. Compare Psa 46:2, "the midst of the sea," Margin; Eze 27:4, "the heart of the seas"; Margin; Mt 12:40. In the center of the Chaldeans. "Against Me," because they persecute My people. The cabalistic mode of interpreting Hebrew words (by taking the letters in the inverse order of the alphabet, the last letter representing the first, and so on, Jr 25:26) would give the very…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 51

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings