Jeremiah 51:40
King James Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Jeremiah 51:40 in context
38They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
The Book of Jeremiah — summary, themes & key verses
The weeping prophet — warnings, tears, and the promise of a new covenant.
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