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See also Jeremiah 51:40 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LAMBS ... RAMS ... HE GOATS - i. e., all classes of the population (see Isaiah 34:6 note)....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon, her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the statement “thus far are the words of Jere...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:58. BABYLON. This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah an...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _lambs … rams … he-goats_ Cp. Jeremiah 50:27; Isaiah 34:6....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Complaint of Israel and the Reply of the Lord Jeremiah 51:34-40 TRANSLATION (34) Nebuchadnezzar has devoured us, has crushed us, has set us down like an empty vessel. Like a monster he has dev...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I WILL BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER, LIKE RAMS WITH HE GOATS._ _ I WILL BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER, LIKE RAMS WITH HE GOATS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER... — The figure is changed, and the revellers appear as themselves destined to be the victims of the slaughter-house (Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 50:27)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֹֽורִידֵ֖ם כְּ כָרִ֣ים לִ טְבֹ֑וחַ כְּ אֵילִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:1 "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."- Jeremiah 50:2 THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to those of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    This is a comparison different from the former, when the Prophet said that they would be like lions, but as to roaring only. But he now shows how easy would that ruin be when it should please God to d...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I 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 sleepin...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. Ver. 40. _I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter._] All that which followeth here to the end of this oration i...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats, all the classes of Babylon's population being included. And here the prophet inserts a word of astonishment over the downfa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secur...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That is, they shall be destroyed before they are aware of it....

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH PROMISES THAT THEY WILL BE AVENGED (JEREMIAH 51:36). God acknowledges the justice of their plea, and assures them that He will take vengeance on their behalf. Evil cannot be allowed to triumph, a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon, continued. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah. CONCLUSION: Let no nation think it will exempt them from God's judgment that they have been execu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 51:7. _Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah._ All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, applaud...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For _Chronological Notes,_ see foregoing chapter. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 51:27. “_The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas_.” These nations of Western As...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 51:1 AGAINST THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. The Hebrew has _lēb-kāmai_, which is _Kasdim_, or _Chaldea, _written in the cypher called Athbash (see...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 39:18; Isaiah 34:6; Jeremiah 50:27; Psalms 37:20; Psalms 44:

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