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Jeremiah 51:40

Judgment

38 They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

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

41 How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
KJV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
WEB
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
ASV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
DARBY
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
BLB
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
ÅB
Jeg vil føre dem ned som lam til å slaktes, som værer og geitebukker.
OTB
Den arrogante vil snuble og falle Med ingen til å reise ham opp, Og jeg vil sette ild på hans byer, Og de vil bli brent.
B1930
Jeg vil føre dem ned som lam til å slaktes, som værer og gjetebukker.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 50:27

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

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  • Psalms 44:22

    Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

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  • Ezekiel 39:18

    You 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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  • Psalms 37:20

    But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

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  • Isaiah 34:6

    The 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.

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