Jeremiah 51:40 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

I’ll lead them off like lambs for slaughter, like rams and goats.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I will lead them away, like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with young goats.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter and like rams with kids.

Jeremiah 51:40 Cross References

Psalm 37:20

But the wicked perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures, they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Psalm 44:22

Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Isaiah 34:6

The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged 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 48:15

The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 50:27

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

Ezekiel 39:18

You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.