Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
The sea is come up upon Babylon,.... A vast army, comparable to the great sea for the multitude thereof, even the army of the Medes and Persians under Cyrus; so the Targum,
"a king with his armies,…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Lambs ... rams ... he goats - i. e., all classes of the population (see Isa 34:6 note).
The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect…
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