Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
In their heat I will place their feasts before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.
40
Like rams together with male goats.
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Psalm 37:20
Caph But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD as the fattest of rams shall be consumed; as smoke they shall fade away.
Psalm 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Isaiah 34:6
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness and 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 Idumea.
Ezekiel 39:18
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of he goats, of oxen, and of bulls, all of them fattened in Bashan.