Jeremiah 46:21

The hired soldiers in her midst are like a fattened bull, but they will also turn away and run away. 1 They will not stand together, for the day of their disaster is coming against them, the time of their punishment. 1

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Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

In Context

20Egypt is a very beautiful young cow, but a stinging insect is coming from the north. It is coming. 1

22Egypt hisses like a snake and crawls away, for her enemies are marching against her. 1 They are going toward her like woodcutters with axes. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— 1 you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill— 1 he abandoned the God who made him, 1 and he rejected the Rock of his salvation. 1

2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had made the Aramean army hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses—the noise of another large army, and they said to each other, “The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to come against us.”

Proverbs 15:17Better is a meal with vegetables where there is love 1 than a fatted calf served with hatred. 1

Isaiah 34:7Wild oxen will fall with them, and young bulls with the older ones. 1 Their land will be drunk with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 1

Jeremiah 46:5What am I seeing here? They are filled with terror and are running away, for their soldiers are defeated. 1 They are running for safety and are not looking back. Terror is all around—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1

Jeremiah 46:15Why are your mighty ones face-down on the ground? They will not stand, because I, Yahweh, have pushed them to the ground. 1

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 →

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