Jeremiah 51:40

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Psalm 37:20

The wicked perish, enemies of the Lord; They shall be consumed like fattened lambs; like smoke they disappear.

Psalm 44:22

Would not God have discovered this, God who knows the secrets of the heart?

Isaiah 34:6

The Lord has a sword sated with blood, greasy with fat, With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams’ kidneys; For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Jeremiah 48:15

The one who ravages Moab and its cities comes up, the best of its youth go down to slaughter— oracle of the King, whose name is Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 50:27

Slay all the oxen, take them down to slaughter; Woe to them! their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Ezekiel 39:18

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