Jeremiah 46:21

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19 O ^ayou daughter dwelling in Egypt,
Prepare yourself ^bto go into captivity!
For¹ Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

20 “Egypt is a very pretty ^aheifer,
But destruction comes, it comes ^bfrom the north.

21 Also her mercenaries are in her midst like¹ fat bulls,
For they also are turned back,
They have fled away together.
They did not stand,
For ^athe day of their calamity had come upon them,
The time of their punishment.

22 ^aHer noise shall go like a serpent,
For they shall march with an army
And come against her with axes,
Like those who chop wood.

23 “They shall ^acut down her forest,” says the Lord,
“Though it cannot be searched,
Because they are innumerable,
And more numerous than ^bgrasshoppers.

24 The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed;
She shall be delivered into the hand
Of ^athe people of the north.”

25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on¹ Amon of ^aNo, and Pharaoh and Egypt, ^bwith their gods and their kings—Pharaoh and those who ^ctrust in him.

26 ^aAnd I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of his servants. ^bAfterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old,” says the Lord.

God Will Preserve Israel

27 “But^a do not fear, O My servant Jacob,
And do not be dismayed, O Israel!
For behold, I will ^bsave you from afar,
And your offspring from the land of their captivity;
Jacob shall return, have rest and be at ease;
No one shall make him afraid.

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Barnes' Notes

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Jeremiah 46:21

Rather, "Also her hirelings in the midst of her are like calves of the stall." The mercenaries of Egypt - Nubians, Moors, and Lydians Jeremiah 46:9 - were destroyed at the battle of Carchemish, and their place was taken by hirelings from Asia Minor, Carians, and Ionians, whom Hophra took into his pay to the number of 30,000 men. These he settled in the midst of Egypt, in the fertile lands above Bubastis, in the Delta, where, well paid and fed and with great privileges, they became as calves of the stall. Their mutiny cost Hophra his crown.

For they also are turned back ... - literally, "for they also have lurched the back, they flee together, they stand not: for the day of their destruction is come upon them, the time of their visitations."

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 46:21:

Amos 2:14-16

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