Jeremiah 51:40
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.”
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“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 51:40 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Isaiah 34:6The 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.
- Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.
- Ezekiel 39:18You 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.
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