Jeremiah 51:40
in Jeremiah 51I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
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ASV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
KJV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
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This verse in Jeremiah 51
Commentary
4 notes on this verseI will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,.... To the place of slaughter; who shall be able to make no more resistance than lambs. This explains what is meant by being made drunk, and sleeping a perpetual sleep, even destruction and death: like rams with he goats; denoting the promiscuous destruction of the prince and common people together.
This site's exposition
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me
on Jeremiah 51:34-40
Zion speaks, “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me.” The LORD answers as the Redeemer of 50:34, “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf.” Babylon’s feast ends in a sleep from which they “never wake up,” and they go down “like lambs to the slaughter.”
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
), in such great numbers, so easily, and the enemies make no more of killing them than the butcher does of killing lambs. The strength of the enemy, and their invading them, are here compared to an irruption and inundation of waters (
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Lambs ... rams ... he goats - i. e., all classes of the population (see Isa 34:6 note).
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם | ʾoridem | I will bring down them | H3381 → | 381 times |
| כְּכָרִ֣ים | kekharim | like lambs | H3733 → | |
| לִטְב֑וֹחַ | litvoach | to slaughter | H2873 → | 11 times |
| כְּאֵילִ֖ים | keeilim | like rams | H352 → | |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| עַתּוּדִֽים׃ | ʾatudim | goats | H6260 → |
אֽוֹרִידֵ֖םI will bring down them
ʾoridemH3381 →381 times
כְּכָרִ֣יםlike lambs
kekharimH3733 →
לִטְב֑וֹחַto slaughter
litvoachH2873 →11 times
כְּאֵילִ֖יםlike rams
keeilimH352 →
עִם־with
ʾim-H5973 →1050 times
עַתּוּדִֽים׃goats
ʾatudimH6260 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
it leads to
- Romans 8:36
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
- Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not…
- Psalms 44:11
You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
- John 15:21
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- Romans 8:36
Through
Ezekiel 39:18You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
it leads to
- Psalms 22:12
Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 22:12
Through
Psalms 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
it leads to
- Psalms 68:2
As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
- Psalms 102:3
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Luke 13:3
No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
- Psalms 68:2
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.