Jeremiah 51:40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with mal…”

Jeremiah 51:40

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

Geneva Bible 1599

I wil bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and like rams and goates.

Darby Translation

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

Young's Literal Translation

I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.

Bible in Basic English

I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.

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Cross references

“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.”

Jeremiah 50:27 Psalm 37:20 Psalm 44:22 Isaiah 34:6 Ezekiel 39:18

Jeremiah 50:27 · BSB

Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.

Psalm 37:20 · BSB

But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

Psalm 44:22 · BSB

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Isaiah 34:6 · BSB

The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Ezekiel 39:18 · BSB

You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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.

41How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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