Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter, - As rams with he-goats.
New American Standard Bible
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
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.
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.
Themes
Lambs » Illustrative » (brought to slaughter,) of the wicked under judgments
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
39 When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age-abiding sleep and not wake, - Declareth Yahweh. 40 I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter, - As rams with he-goats. 41 How hath Sheshach, been captured! How hath the praise of all the earth linen seized! How hath Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:27
Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter, - Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment.
Psalm 37:20
For, the lawless, shall perish, and, the foes of Yahweh, be like the glory of the meadows, They have vanished! In smoke, have they vanished!
Psalm 44:22
Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.
Isaiah 34:6
A sword, hath Yahweh - Glutted with blood Sated with fat, - With the blood of well-fed lambs and he-goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams, - For, a sacrifice, hath Yahweh in Bozrah, Yea a great slaughter in the land of Edom;
Ezekiel 39:18
The flesh of mighty men, shall ye eat, And the blood of the princes of the earth, shall ye drink. - Rams well-fed lambs and be-goats bullocks, Fatlings of Bashan all of them;