Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Jeremiah 51:40 in other translations
| BSB | I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats. |
| DARBY | I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. |
| BBE | I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together. |
| Webster | I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. |
What does Jeremiah 51:40 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 51:1-58
Babylon's doom; God's controversy with her; encouragements from thence to the Israel of God. (Jr 51:1-58) The confirming of this. (Jr 51:59-64) Verses 1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secure her. Destruction comes when they did not think of it. Wherever we…
Jeremiah 51:40 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 51:40
- 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 counted 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.
- Psalms 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.
- Isaiah 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.
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Context
- Jeremiah 51:39
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.
- Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
- Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Jeremiah 51:40 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hacerlos he traer como corderos al matadero, como carneros con cabritos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je les ferai descendre comme des agneaux à la tuerie, comme des béliers avec des boucs. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gleich Fettschafen, gleich Widdern samt Böcken stürze ich sie hinab zur Schlachtung. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Deducam eos quasi agnos ad victimam, et quasi arietes cum hædis. |