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

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

39 While 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.

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

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Verse 38

Cross-references

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

Original words

They will roar יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ H7580 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural together יַחְדָּ֖ו H3162 Adverb like young lions כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים H3715 Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural they will growl נָעֲר֖וּ H5286 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural like lion אֲרָיֽוֹת׃ H738 Noun - masculine plural cubs כְּגוֹרֵ֥י H1484 Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct

Verse 39

Cross-references

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

Original words

While they are flushed with heat בְּחֻמָּ֞ם H2552 Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural I will serve אָשִׁ֣ית H7896 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular them אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker a feast מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֗ם H4960 Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural and I will make them drunk וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים֙ H7937 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural so that לְמַ֣עַן H4616 Conjunction they may revel יַעֲלֹ֔זוּ H5937 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural then they will fall asleep וְיָשְׁנ֥וּ H3462 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural . . . שְׁנַת־ H8142 Noun - feminine singular construct forever עוֹלָ֖ם H5769 Noun - masculine singular and never וְלֹ֣א H3808 Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle wake up יָקִ֑יצוּ H6974 Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural declares נְאֻ֖ם H5002 Noun - masculine singular construct the LORD יְהוָֽה׃ H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular

Verse 40

Cross-references

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

Original words

I will bring them down אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם H3381 Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural like lambs כְּכָרִ֣ים H3733 Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural to the slaughter לִטְב֑וֹחַ H2873 Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct like rams כְּאֵילִ֖ים H352 Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural with עִם־ H5973 Preposition male goats עַתּוּדִֽים׃ H6260 Noun - masculine plural

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