Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
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

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
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.

Amplified


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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will bring them down
ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

כּר 
Kar 
Usage: 16

to the slaughter
טבח 
Tabach 
Usage: 11

איל 
'ayil 
Usage: 100

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

39 “When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant
And may sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.
40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.
41 “How Sheshak has been captured,
And the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!



Cross References

Jeremiah 50:27

Put all her young bulls to the sword;
Let them go down to the slaughter!
Woe be upon them, for their day has come,
The time of their punishment.

Psalm 37:20

But the wicked will perish;
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures,
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Psalm 44:22

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Isaiah 34:6

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is sated 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
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.

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