Jeremiah 51:40

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

“I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, || As rams with male goats.

YLT

I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.

DBY

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

DRC

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.

GNV

I wil bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and like rams and goates.

JPS

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

LXXE28:40

And bring thou them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.

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WLC

אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם כְּכָרִ֣ים לִטְב֑וֹחַ כְּאֵילִ֖ים עִם־עַתּוּדִֽים׃

LXX-Br28:40

Καὶ καταβίβασον αὐτοὺς ὡς ἄρνας εἰς σφαγὴν, καὶ ὡς κριοὺς μετʼ ἐρίφων.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.
• Isaiah 34:6The 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.
• Ezekiel 39:18You 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.
• Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Psalms 37:20But 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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