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Jeremiah 51

Jeremiah 51:40

Babylon’s Punishment · Jeremiah 51:20–58
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Translations

Modern
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Traditional
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Literal
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Latin
Deducam eos quasi agnos ad victimam, et quasi arietes cum hædis.

Original

Hebrew
English
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

Notes

Jeremiah 51:38–40

The Lord announced he would use wine to change the lion, which once terrorized and destroyed nations (Jeremiah 5:6; 25:38; 49:19), into a lamb that is easy to control. Wine as a tool of wrath was usually symbolic (Jeremiah 25:15–29), but here it was real (see Daniel 5).

Events

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Topics

Persia: Prophecies Concerning Sheep: Males of Called Rams The Lamb: (Brought to Slaughter) of the Wicked Under Judgments War: Evils of