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.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

In Context

26Come ye against her from farthest parts, Throw open her granaries, Cast her up as heaps, and devote her to destruction,—Do not let her have a remnant.

28The voice Of them who are in flight and Of such as are escaping, out of the land of Babylon,—To tell in Zion The avenging of Yahweh our God, The avenging of his temple.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me, Strong oxen of Bashan, have enclosed me;

Isaiah 21:12Said the watchman, There cometh a morning. But also a night,—If ye will enquire, enquire, ye—Come, again!

Isaiah 34:7Then shall buffaloes come down with them, And bullocks with bulls,—So shall their land be soaked with blood, And, their dust, with fat, shall be enriched.

Jeremiah 46:21Even her hirelings in her midst are like fatted calves, For, even they, have turned—have fled at once! have made no stand! For, their day of doom, hath come upon them, The time of their visitation.

Jeremiah 50:11Because they used to be glad Because they used to be uproarious When plundering mine inheritance,—Because they used to caper about as a heifer at grass, And bellow like bulls.

Lamentations 1:21They have heard—that, sighing am, I, [and am saying] —There is none to comfort me, All my foes,—having heard of my calamity—have rejoiced, because, thou, hast done it,—thou hast brought in the day thou didst proclaim, So let them become like me.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:22-33

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord , and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware:… Read the whole commentary →

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