Jeremiah 51:40

New Century Version

“I will take the people of Babylon to be killed. They will be like lambs, like sheep and goats waiting to be killed.

Cross References

Psalm 37:20

But the wicked will die. The Lord’s enemies will be like the flowers of the fields; they will disappear like smoke.

Psalm 44:22

But for you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed.

Isaiah 34:6

The Lord’s sword will be covered with blood; it will be covered with fat, with the blood from lambs and goats, with the fat from the kidneys of sheep. This is because the Lord decided there will be a sacrifice in Bozrah and much killing in Edom.

Jeremiah 48:15

The destroyer of Moab and her towns has arrived. Her best young men will be killed!” says the King, whose name is the Lord All-Powerful.

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill all the young men in Babylon; let them be killed like animals. How terrible it will be for them, because the time has come for their defeat; it is time for them to be punished.

Ezekiel 39:18

You are to eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth as if they were fat animals from Bashan: male sheep, lambs, goats, and bulls.