Bible verse

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 50:27 · BSB

Jeremiah 50:27 in context

The verses around it, from Jeremiah 50.

23 How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

24 I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

25 The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

26 Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.

27 Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.

28 Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

29 Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

30 Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.

31 “Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

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Jeremiah 50:27 in other translations

KJV

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

ASV

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

ERV

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

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