⁴⁰ “I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.^(A)

²⁷ Kill all her young bulls;^(A)
    let them go down to the slaughter!^(B)
Woe to them! For their day^(C) has come,
    the time^(D) for them to be punished.

⁶ The sword^(A) of the Lord is bathed in blood,
    it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
    fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice^(B) in Bozrah^(C)
    and a great slaughter^(D) in the land of Edom.

²² Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep^(A) to be slaughtered.^(B)

²⁰ But the wicked will perish:^(A)
    Though the Lord’s enemies are like the flowers of the field,
    they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.^(B)