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

38Her people will roar together like strong lions. They will growl like lion cubs. 39And while they lie inflamed with all their wine, I will prepare a different kind of feast for them. I will make them drink until they fall asleep, and they will never wake up again,” says the Lord. “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats to be sacrificed. 41“How Babylon is fallen— great Babylon, praised throughout the earth! Now she has become an object of horror among the nations. 42The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered by its crashing 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 50:27Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.
• Psalms 37:20But the wicked will die. The Lord’s enemies are like flowers in a field— they will disappear like smoke.
• Psalms 44:22But for your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.
• Isaiah 34:6The sword of the Lord is drenched with blood and covered with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams prepared for sacrifice. Yes, the Lord will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah. He will make a mighty slaughter in Edom.
• Ezekiel 39:18Eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of princes as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all 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