Jeremiah 51:40

I will lead them away, like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with young goats.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

39In their heat, I will give them a drink, and I will inebriate them, so that they become drowsy, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and do not rise up, says the Lord.

41How was Sesac captured, and how was the renowned one of all the earth seized? How has Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

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Cross References

Psalms 37:20But my enemies live, and they have been stronger than me. And those who have wrongfully hated me have been multiplied.

Isaiah 34:6The sword of the Lord has been filled with blood. It has been thickened by the blood of lambs and he-goats, by the innermost blood of rams. For the victim of the Lord is in Bozrah, and a great slaughter is in the land of Edom.

Ezekiel 39:18You shall eat the flesh of the powerful, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs and he-goats and bulls, and of fattened birds and all that is fat.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →

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