Jeremiah 51:40 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴⁰ “I shall bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with he-goats.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ I’ll lead them off like lambs for slaughter, like rams and goats.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ I will lead them away, like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with young goats.

Jeremiah 51:40 Cross References

Psalm 37:20

But the wrongdoers shall perish; And the enemies of יהוה, Like the splendour of the meadows they vanish, Like smoke they vanish away.

Psalm 44:22

But for Your sake we are killed all day long; Reckoned as sheep for the slaughter.

Isaiah 34:6

“The sword of יהוה  shall be filled with blood, it shall be made overflowing with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For יהוה  has a slaughtering in Botsrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Eḏ

Jeremiah 48:15

“Mo’aḇ

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

“Eat the flesh of the mighty, drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs, of goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.