Jeremías 46:21

21 Sus soldados también en medio de ella como becerros engordados, que también ellos se volvieron, huyeron todos sin pararse; porque vino sobre ellos el día de su quebrantamiento, el tiempo de su visitación

Jeremías 46:21 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 46:21

All her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted
bullocks
Or, "bullocks of the stall" ^F11; soldiers of other countries, that were hired into the service of Egypt, and lived so deliciously there, that they were unfit for war, and were like fatted beasts prepared for the slaughter. The Targum and Jarchi interpret it, her princes ^F12; who had the care of this heifer, and of the feeding of it; these themselves were like that, nourished for the day of slaughter: for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together;
they turned their backs upon the enemy in battle, and fled in great confusion and precipitancy; see ( Jeremiah 46:15 Jeremiah 46:16 ) ; they did not stand;
and face the enemy, and light him, but fell or fled before him: because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of
their visitation;
the time appointed by the Lord to visit and punish them, and bring destruction on them for their sins.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (qbrm ylgek) "velut vituli saginae", Montanus, Cocceius,
F12 So R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 50. 2.

Jeremías 46:21 In-Context

19 Hazte vasos de transmigración, moradora hija de Egipto; porque Menfis será por yermo, y será asolada hasta no quedar morador

20 Becerra hermosa es Egipto; mas viene destrucción, del aquilón viene

21 Sus soldados también en medio de ella como becerros engordados, que también ellos se volvieron, huyeron todos sin pararse; porque vino sobre ellos el día de su quebrantamiento, el tiempo de su visitación

22 Su voz saldrá como de serpiente; porque con ejército vendrán, y con hachas vienen a ella como cortadores de leña

23 Cortaron su monte, dice el SEÑOR, porque no podrán ser contados; porque serán más que langostas, ni tendrán número