Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
BSB
ASV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
KJV
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,.... To the place of slaughter; who shall be able to make no more resistance than lambs. This explains what is meant by being made drunk, and sleeping a perpetual sleep, even destruction and death: like rams with he goats; denoting the promiscuous destruction of the prince and common people together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
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As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not…
You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
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Ezekiel 39:18You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
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Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Psalms 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
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As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.