Jeremiah 51:40

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Jer 50:27 : 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.
  • Ezek 39:18 : 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.
  • Ps 37:20 : 20 But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume away.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Isa 34:6 : 6 The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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