Focused Passage

Jeremiah 51:38-40

Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates

The chapter moves from the LORD stirring up destroyers against Babylon, to the command for Israel to flee, to Babylon’s image as a shattered golden cup, to the LORD’s vengeance for Zion, to a creation-theology contrast between the LORD and idols, to Babylon as the LORD’s war club now judged, to repeated announcements of Babylon’s desolation, to pastoral exhortations for exiles not to lose heart, and finally to Seraiah’s symbolic sinking of the scroll in the Euphrates.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

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Verse 38

Cross-references

1 Peter 5:8Classic cross-references Ezekiel 38:13Classic cross-references Jeremiah 2:15Classic cross-references

Original words

They will roarיִשְׁאָ֑גוּH7580Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine pluraltogetherיַחְדָּ֖וH3162Adverblike young lionsכַּכְּפִרִ֣יםH3715Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine pluralthey will growlנָעֲר֖וּH5286Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plurallike lionאֲרָיֽוֹת׃H738Noun - masculine pluralcubsכְּגוֹרֵ֥יH1484Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct

Verse 39

Cross-references

Psalms 13:3Classic cross-references Jeremiah 51:57Classic cross-references Daniel 5:30Classic cross-references Isaiah 21:5Classic cross-references Jeremiah 25:27Classic cross-references

Original words

While they are flushed with heatבְּחֻמָּ֞םH2552Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine pluralI will serveאָשִׁ֣יתH7896Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singularthemאֶת־H853Direct object markera feastמִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֗םH4960Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine pluraland I will make them drunkוְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים֙H7937Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine pluralso thatלְמַ֣עַןH4616Conjunctionthey may revelיַעֲלֹ֔זוּH5937Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine pluralthen they will fall asleepוְיָשְׁנ֥וּH3462Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural. . .שְׁנַת־H8142Noun - feminine singular constructforeverעוֹלָ֖םH5769Noun - masculine singularand neverוְלֹ֣אH3808Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particlewake upיָקִ֑יצוּH6974Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine pluraldeclaresנְאֻ֖םH5002Noun - masculine singular constructthe LORDיְהוָֽה׃H3068Noun - proper - masculine singular

Verse 40

Cross-references

Acts 8:32Classic cross-references Romans 8:36Classic cross-references Ezekiel 39:18Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:27Classic cross-references

Original words

I will bring them downאֽוֹרִידֵ֖םH3381Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plurallike lambsכְּכָרִ֣יםH3733Preposition-k | Noun - masculine pluralto the slaughterלִטְב֑וֹחַH2873Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive constructlike ramsכְּאֵילִ֖יםH352Preposition-k | Noun - masculine pluralwithעִם־H5973Prepositionmale goatsעַתּוּדִֽים׃H6260Noun - masculine plural

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