Jeremiah 51:40
Good News Translation
I will take them to be slaughtered, like lambs, goats, and rams. I, the LORD, have spoken."

New Revised Standard Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.

Contemporary English Version
I will lead them away to die, like sheep, lambs, and goats being led to the butcher.

New American Bible
I will bring them down like lambs to slaughter, like rams and goats.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Jeremiah 50:27 Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Psalm 37:20 Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke.

Psalm 44:22 Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Isaiah 34:6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Ezekiel 39:18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.

Context
Babylon's Punishment
39In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord. 40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.41How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?…
Cross References
Jeremiah 48:15
Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 50:27
Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Ezekiel 39:18
You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.

Jeremiah 51:39
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