Jérémie 46:21

La Bible Ostervald

Ses mercenaires aussi sont chez elle comme des veaux bien nourris. Mais eux aussi, ils tournent le dos, ils fuient ensemble; ils ne tiennent pas ferme; car le jour de la calamité est venu sur eux, le temps de leur visitation.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
M�me les gens de guerre qu'elle entretient chez elle � ses gages, sont comme des veaux engraiss�s, car aussi ont-ils tourn� le dos; ils s'en sont fuis ensemble, ils n'ont point tenu ferme, parce que le jour de leur calamit�, le temps de leur punition est venu sur eux.

Darby's French Translation
Et ses mercenaires au milieu d'elle sont comme des veaux � l'engrais; car eux aussi ont tourn� le dos, ils se sont enfuis ensemble, ils n'ont pas tenu ferme; car le jour de leur calamit�, le temps de leur visitation, est venu sur eux.

Louis Segond (1910)
Ses mercenaires aussi sont au milieu d'elle comme des veaux engraiss�s. Et eux aussi, ils tournent le dos, ils fuient tous sans r�sister. Car le jour de leur malheur fond sur eux, Le temps de leur ch�timent.

Bible Verse Review
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her hired: Jeremiah 46:9, Jeremiah 46:16, 2 Samuel 10:6, 2 Kings 7:6, Ezekiel 27:10, Ezekiel 27:11, Ezekiel 30:4-6

like: Jeremiah 50:11, Jeremiah 50:27, Isaiah 34:7

fatted bullocks: Heb. bullocks of the stall, Proverbs 15:17, Amos 6:4

they did: Jeremiah 46:5, Jeremiah 46:15, Jeremiah 46:16

the day: Jeremiah 18:17, Deuteronomy 32:15, Psalms 37:13, Isaiah 10:3, Ezekiel 35:5, Hosea 9:7, Obadiah 1:13, Micah 7:4

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 11:23 - the year Jeremiah 38:22 - they are Jeremiah 48:44 - the year Jeremiah 49:8 - for Jeremiah 51:9 - forsake Ezekiel 30:22 - I will

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks,.... Or, "bullocks of the stall" k; 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 l; 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;

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.

k כעגלי מרבק "velut vituli saginae", Montanus, Cocceius, l So R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 50. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:21. Are fled away together — Perhaps there is a reference here to the case of a cow stung with gnats. She runs hither and thither not knowing where to go; so shall it be with this scattered people.