Jeremiah 51:40
What does Jeremiah 51:40 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 51:40 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Context
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.
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