Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 46:21

21 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 .

The mercenary Souldiers also which the Egyptians have hired from Cush and Put, and other parts are at present in a flourishing prosperous state.

We have translated [non-Latin text not transcribed] here ill, it had been better translated but, for that is manifestly the sense. Though they at present lying in Garrisons be fat and flourishing, like bullocks in the stalls, yet when it cometh to it they shall not stand but turn back, and flee as well as the rest.

Because the time is come when God resolveth to punish them, and bring calamity upon them. When the time is come which God hath set in his counsels, wherein he will punish persons or nations: no probabilities to the contrary are much considerable.

Marginal references: Heb. b[illegible: 1 letter]llocks of the [illegible: 1 word].