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Jeremiah 51:40

American Standard Version

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

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Jeremiah 51:40 in other translations

“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.

Jeremiah 51:40 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 51:40 in context

  1. 38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.
  2. 39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
  3. 40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
  4. 41How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
  5. 42The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.