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Jeremiah 51:40
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats.
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 will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs. 39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they celebrate. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats. 41How Sheshak has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations! 42The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
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אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם כְּכָרִ֣ים לִטְב֑וֹחַ כְּאֵילִ֖ים עִם־עַתּוּדִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:40
- Jeremiah 50:27Put all her young bulls to the sword; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them because their day has come, the time of their punishment.
- Psalms 37:20But the wicked will perish; the Lord’s enemies, like the glory of the pastures, will fade away — they will fade away like smoke.
- Psalms 44:22Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Isaiah 34:6The Lord’s sword is covered with blood. 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, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
- Ezekiel 39:18You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan.
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
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