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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats to be sacrificed.

Context of Jeremiah 51:40

38Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs. 39But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the Lord. “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats. 41“How Sheshak will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations! 42The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

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; let them go down to the slaughter! Woe to them! For their day has come, the time for them to be punished.
• Psalms 37:20But the wicked will perish: Though the Lord’s enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.
• Psalms 44:22Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Isaiah 34:6The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah 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 if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from 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