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Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 50:27 · World English Bible
Parallel 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.
  • BSB 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.
  • NKJV Slay all her bulls, Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.
  • NASB Put all her bulls to the sword; Let them go down to the slaughter! Woe be upon them, for their day has come, The time of their punishment.
  • NLT Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.

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Quick answer

God orders Babylon's young warriors, pictured as bulls, slaughtered, for their day of reckoning has come. The time of their visitation is judgment.

Overview

The 'bulls' are Babylon's strong fighting men, led down to slaughter. 'The time of their visitation' is a frequent biblical phrase for the appointed moment of divine reckoning. The verse stresses that God has set a day for every nation's accountability, and when it arrives, no strength can prevent it (Luke 19:44).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 14

  • Jer 46:21Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.
  • Isa 34:7The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
  • Ps 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
  • Jer 48:44“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
  • Ps 37:13The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
  • Rev 18:10standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’
  • Jer 27:7All the nations will serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
  • Jer 50:31“Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; “for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
  • Ezek 39:17–20You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.
  • Jer 50:11“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;
  • Lam 1:21“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.
  • Rev 16:17–19The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”
  • Ezek 7:5–7“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘An evil! A unique evil! Behold, it comes.
  • Rev 19:17I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,

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Christ at the center

Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.

How Jeremiah 50:27 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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