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Jeremiah 51:40

World English Bible

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

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Jeremiah 51:40 in other translations

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

Jeremiah 51:40 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 51:40 in context

  1. 38They will roar together like young lions.
    They will growl as lions’ cubs.
  2. 39When they are heated, I will make their feast,
    and I will make them drunk,
    that they may rejoice,
    and sleep a perpetual sleep,
    and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
  3. 40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams with male goats.
  4. 41“How Sheshach is taken!
    How the praise of the whole earth seized!
    How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
  5. 42The sea has come up on Babylon.
    She is covered with the multitude of its waves.