Jeremiah 46:21
Also her hired troops in the midst of her are like fatted calves; for they also are turned round, are fled away together, they do not stand; because the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their punishment.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
20O fairest heifer, Egypt! the butcher from the north cometh, he cometh.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15Thus did Yeshurun grow fat, and he kicked; [thou art grown fat, thick, fleshy;] and then he forsook the God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, the noise of a large army: and they said one to the other, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Proverbs 15:17Better is an allowance of herbs when love is there, than a stall-fed ox and hatred therewith.
Isaiah 34:7And wild oxen shall sink down with them, and steers with bullocks; and their land shall be sated with blood, and their dust enriched with fat.
Jeremiah 46:5Wherefore have I seen them dismayed, moving backward? while their mighty ones are beaten down, and seek safety in flight, and look not back? There is terror round about, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 46:15Why are thy valiant men swept away? not one hath stood, because the Lord did drive him off.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 46:14-28
The Judgment of Egypt. ( b. c. 608.) 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together. 13 The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. 14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. 15 Why are thy… Read the whole commentary →