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I, the LORD, have spoken." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/jeremiah/51-40.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/jeremiah/51-40.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/jeremiah/51-40.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/1.htm">Jeremiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/51.htm">Chapter 51</a> > Verse 40</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/51-39.htm" title="Jeremiah 51:39">◄</a> Jeremiah 51:40 <a href="../jeremiah/51-41.htm" title="Jeremiah 51:41">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/51.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/jeremiah/51.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I will take them to be slaughtered, like lambs, goats, and rams. I, the LORD, have spoken." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/51.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/jeremiah/51.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I will lead them away to die, like sheep, lambs, and goats being led to the butcher. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/51.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I will bring them down like lambs to slaughter, like rams and goats. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/51.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/50-27.htm">Jeremiah 50:27</a> Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/37-20.htm">Psalm 37:20</a> Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/44-22.htm">Psalm 44:22</a> Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/34-6.htm">Isaiah 34:6</a> The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/39-18.htm">Ezekiel 39:18</a> You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/51.htm">Babylon's Punishment</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">39</span>In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord. <span class="reftext">40</span><span class="highl">I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.</span><span class="reftext">41</span>How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/48-15.htm">Jeremiah 48:15</a></span><br />Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/50-27.htm">Jeremiah 50:27</a></span><br />Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/39-18.htm">Ezekiel 39:18</a></span><br />You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/51-37.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-27.htm">Death</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-8.htm">Goats</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-8.htm">He-Goats</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-11.htm">Lambs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-8.htm">Male</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-34.htm">Rams</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-27.htm">Slaughter</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-38.htm">Together</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/51-41.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-10.htm">Death</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-21.htm">Goats</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-21.htm">He-Goats</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-21.htm">Lambs</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-17.htm">Male</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm">Rams</a> <a href="/ezekiel/9-2.htm">Slaughter</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-44.htm">Together</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/jeremiah/51-40.htm">Jeremiah 51:40 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and bring down goats I lambs like male rams slaughter the them to together will with<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/51-40.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 51:40 I will bring them down like lambs (Jer.) 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