I will bring them down … to the slaughter: This is similar in thought to “let them go down to the slaughter” in 50.27.

For this verse, Bassa in Liberia has:

• I will carry them to a slaughtering place like a person carrying domesticated animals to a slaughtering place.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .