New King James Version
Jeremiah 51:40
40“I will bring them down Like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams 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 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
38They shall roar together like lions, They shall growl like lions’ whelps. 39In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake,” says the Lord. “I will bring them down Like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams with male goats. 41“Oh, how Sheshach is taken! Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become desolate among the nations! 42The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Read all of Jeremiah 51Jeremiah 51:40 word by word
אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם כְּכָרִ֣ים לִטְב֑וֹחַ כְּאֵילִ֖ים עִם־עַתּוּדִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:40
- Jeremiah 50:27Slay all her bulls, Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.
- Psalms 37:20But the wicked shall perish; And the enemies of the Lord, Like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish. Into smoke they shall vanish away.
- Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Isaiah 34:6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, It is made overflowing with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
- Ezekiel 39:18You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, Drink the blood of the princes of the earth, Of rams and lambs, Of goats and bulls, All of them fatlings 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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