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Jeremiah 51:40
40“I will drag them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-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 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 roar together like young lions, growl like lions cubs. 39When they become hot, I will set out a banquet for them and will make them so drunk that they become merry— and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “I will drag them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. 41How has Sheshach been taken, the praise of the whole earth seized? How has Babylon become a horror among the nations! 42The sea has risen over Babylon— she is covered with its roaring waves.
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אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם כְּכָרִ֣ים לִטְב֑וֹחַ כְּאֵילִ֖ים עִם־עַתּוּדִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:40
- Jeremiah 50:27To the sword with all her bulls, going down to the slaughter! Oy to them! Their day has come— the time of their visitation.
- Psalms 37:20For the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Adonai will be like the beauty of the fields— they will vanish—vanish like smoke.
- Psalms 44:22would God not have discovered it? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
- Isaiah 34:6The sword of Adonai is filled with blood, gorged with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, the fat of kidneys of rams. For Adonai has a sacrifice in Bozrah, 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 rams, lambs, goats, 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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