Jeremiah 51:38-40
Arrogant power that celebrates in self-confidence will ultimately be subdued and judged by the Lord.
38 They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Arrogant power that celebrates in self-confidence will ultimately be subdued and judged by the LORD.
To depict Babylon’s arrogant strength and festal confidence immediately before the LORD leads it to slaughter like animals prepared for sacrifice.
Jeremiah 51:38–40 continues the prophecy against Babylon by portraying the empire’s arrogant confidence before describing its sudden destruction.
Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates
The LORD will make Babylon sink under the weight of her violence, idolatry, pride, and bloodshed, while calling his people to flee, remember Zion, and trust his irreversible word.