Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
I will bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, like rammes with hee goates.
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- Jeremiah 50:27Rank 1 from verse 40
- Ezekiel 39:18Rank 2 from verse 40
18Ye 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.
18†Ye shall eate the flesh of the mightie, and drinke the blood of the princes of the earth, of rammes, of lambes and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
- Isaiah 34:6Rank 3 from verse 40
6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatnesse, and with the blood of lambes and goates, with the fat of the kidneys of rammes: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
- Psalms 37:20Rank 4 from verse 40
- Psalms 44:22Rank 5 from verse 40
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Jeremiah 51:40
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references
Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Sense 1: The killing of persons or animals, especially in great number. Sense 2: As a verb, to kill or slay.
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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.
39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the LORD.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
40I will bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, like rammes with hee goates.
Selected passage41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
41How is Sheshach taken? and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?