Jeremiah 51:40
38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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.
Compare
- 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
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Read in contextPsalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Read in contextEzekiel 39:18
Ye 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 bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Read in contextPsalms 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Read in contextIsaiah 34:6
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
Read in context