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 shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps. 39When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. 41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! 42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

Jeremiah 51:40 word by word

אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם כְּכָרִ֣ים לִטְב֑וֹחַ כְּאֵילִ֖ים עִם־עַתּוּדִֽים׃Read the interlinear

• bringיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• lambsכַּרkar · ramH3733
• slaughterטָבַחţâbach · to slaughterH2873
• ramsאַ֫יִל'ayil · ramH352

Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:40

• Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Psalms 37:20For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.
• Psalms 44:22But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
• Isaiah 34:6The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
• Ezekiel 39:18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, [and] of bullocks, all of them fatted beasts 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