Bible verse
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Jeremiah 51:40 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 51.
36 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
37 Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
38 They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
41 How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
KJV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
ASV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
ERV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
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