6 Bible Verses about Being Killed Like An Animal

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Proverbs 7:22

He follows her impulsively
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer bounding toward a trap

Jeremiah 11:19

for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter.
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
let’s cut him off from the land of the living
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Jeremiah 51:40

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

Jeremiah 12:3

As for You, Lord, You know me; You see me.
You test whether my heart is with You.
Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughter
and set them apart for the day of killing.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

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