John Gill, on Jer 51:38

“They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.”

“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 sleeping a perpetual sleep, even destruction and death: like rams with he goats; denoting the promiscuous destruction of the prince and common people together.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.