Parallel Verses

Amplified


Kill all her young bulls [her strength—her young men];
Let them go down to the slaughter!
Woe (judgment is coming) to the Chaldeans, for their day has come,
The time of their punishment.

New American Standard Bible

Put all her young bulls to the sword;
Let them go down to the slaughter!
Woe be upon them, for their day has come,
The time of their punishment.

King James Version

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Holman Bible

Put all her young bulls to the sword;
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, because their day has come,
the time of their punishment.

International Standard Version

Put all her bulls to the sword, let them go down to the slaughter. How terrible for them because their day has come, the time of their judgment.

A Conservative Version

Kill all her bullocks. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.

American Standard Version

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Bible in Basic English

Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Darby Translation

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Julia Smith Translation

Lay waste all her bullocks; come down to the slaughter: wo to them! for their day came, the time of their reviewing.

King James 2000

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Massacre all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughtering. Woe to them, for [their] day has come, the time of their punishment.

Modern King James verseion

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They shall slay all her mighty soldiers, and put them to death. Woe be unto them, for the day and the time of their visitation is at hand.

NET Bible

Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished."

New Heart English Bible

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them. for their day has come, the time of their visitation."

The Emphasized Bible

Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter, - Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment.

Webster

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

World English Bible

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Youngs Literal Translation

Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Woe is on them, for come hath their day, The time of their inspection.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חרב חרב 
Charab 
Usage: 40

פּר פּר 
Par 
Usage: 133

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

to the slaughter
טבח 
Tebach 
Usage: 12

woe
הוי 
Howy 
woe, Ah, Ho, O, Alas
Usage: 50

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

is come

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

the time
עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

26
Come against her from the farthest border.
Open her storehouses;
Pile it up like heaps of rubbish.
Burn and destroy her completely;
Let nothing be left of her.
27 
Kill all her young bulls [her strength—her young men];
Let them go down to the slaughter!
Woe (judgment is coming) to the Chaldeans, for their day has come,
The time of their punishment.
28
Listen to the voice of the refugees who flee and escape from the land of Babylon,
Proclaiming in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
The vengeance [of the Lord against the Chaldeans] for [plundering and destroying] His temple.



Cross References

Isaiah 34:7


Wild oxen will also fall with them
And the young bulls with the strong bulls;
And their land will be soaked with blood,
And their dust made greasy with fat.

Jeremiah 46:21


“Also her mercenaries in her army
Are like fattened calves,
For they too have turned back and have fled together;
They did not stand [their ground],
Because the day of their disaster has come upon them,
The time of their punishment.

Psalm 22:12


Many [enemies like] bulls have surrounded me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Psalm 37:13


The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous],
For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.

Jeremiah 48:44


“The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who gets up out of the pit
Will be taken and caught in the trap;
For I shall bring upon it, even upon Moab,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the [appointed] time [of punishment] for his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their servant.

Jeremiah 50:11


“Though you are glad, though you rejoice,
O you who plunder My heritage,
Though you are wanton and skip about like a heifer in the grass
And neigh like stallions,

Jeremiah 50:31


“Behold, I am against you, [O Babylon, you] arrogant one, [you who are pride and presumption personified],”
Says the Lord God of hosts,
“For your day has come,
The time when I will punish you.

Lamentations 1:21


“People have heard that I groan,
That I have no comforter [in You].
All my enemies have heard of my desperation;
They are delighted [O Lord] that You have done it.
Oh, that You would bring the day [of judgment] which You have proclaimed
So that they will become like me.

Ezekiel 7:5-7

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘A disaster is coming, [one so destructive and injurious, so sudden and violent, that it stands alone,] a unique disaster, look it is coming!

Ezekiel 39:17-20

“As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘Say to every kind of bird and to every animal of the field, “Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice that I am slaughtering for you, as a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh and drink blood.

Revelation 16:17-19

Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne [of God], saying, “It is done. [It is all over, it is all accomplished, it has come.]”

Revelation 18:10

standing a long way off, in fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, the strong city, Babylon! In a single hour your judgment has come.’

Revelation 19:17

Then I saw a single angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he shouted to all the birds that fly in midheaven, saying, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

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