Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
KJV
Deducam eos quasi agnos ad victimam, et quasi arietes cum hædis.
Vulgate
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
ASV
אֽוֹרִידֵ֖/ם כְּ/כָרִ֣ים לִ/טְב֑וֹחַ כְּ/אֵילִ֖ים עִם עַתּוּדִֽים
Hebrew
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
ו
v
noun · 195×
טְב֑וֹחַ
tbvch
verb · 10×
יָרְד֥וּ
yrdv
verb · 377×
כָּרִים֙
krym
noun · 15×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×
עַתֻּדִ֣ים
'tdym
noun · 29×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 8:32 — The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
- Ezek 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 goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
- Jer 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.
- Rom 8:36 — As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.