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Jeremiah 51:40

Jeremiah chapter 51 · verse 40 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

v.40This passage

v.41How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 37:20

    But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume away.

  • 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.

  • Psalms 44:22

    Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Ezekiel 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.

  • Isaiah 34:6

    The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.