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

38The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat. 39When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” says the Lord. “I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.” 41“See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations! 42The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its 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 soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished.”
• Psalms 37:20But evil men will die; the Lord’s enemies will be incinerated – they will go up in smoke.
• Psalms 44:22Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.
• Isaiah 34:6The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood, it is covered with fat; it drips with the blood of young rams and goats and is covered with the fat of rams’ kidneys. For the Lord is holding a sacrifice in Bozrah, a bloody slaughter in the land of Edom.
• Ezekiel 39:18You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth – the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals 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