Parallel Verses
Amplified
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.
New American Standard Bible
Like rams together with male goats.
King James Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Holman Bible
like rams together with male goats.
International Standard Version
"I'll bring them down like lambs for the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
A Conservative Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
American Standard Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Bible in Basic English
I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
Darby Translation
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Julia Smith Translation
I will bring them down as lambs for the slaughter, as rams with he goats.
King James 2000
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats.
Modern King James verseion
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I shall carry them down to be slain like sheep, like whethers and goats.
NET Bible
"I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats."
New Heart English Bible
"I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
The Emphasized Bible
I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter, - As rams with he-goats.
Webster
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
World English Bible
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Youngs Literal Translation
I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.
Themes
Lambs » Illustrative » (brought to slaughter,) of the wicked under judgments
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
39
“When they are
And make them drunk, that they may rejoice
And may sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.
“How Sheshak (Babylon) has been captured,
And the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror among the nations!
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:27
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.
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked (ungodly) will perish,
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
Psalm 44:22
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Isaiah 34:6
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood [from sacrifices],
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 (Edom’s capital city)
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Ezekiel 39:18
You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan [east of the Jordan].