Jeremiah 51:40
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40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and goats.(A)
Jeremiah 50:27
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27 Kill all her bulls;
let them go down to the slaughter.
Alas for them, their day has come,
the time of their punishment!(A)
Ezekiel 39:18
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18 You 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 bulls, all of them fatted calves of Bashan.(A)
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Isaiah 34:6
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6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.(A)
Psalm 44:22
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22 Because of you we are being killed all day long
and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.(A)
Psalm 37:20
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20 But the wicked perish,
and the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures;
they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.(A)
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