Her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks. — Literally, bullocks of the stall. The prophet harps, as it were, on the same image. The mercenaries — Ionians, Carians, and others — in the army of Pharaoh-Hophra, who had their camp at Bubastis (Herod. ii. 152, 163), should be like a drove of terrified cattle, fed to the full, driven to the slaughter-house.
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Jeremiah 46:21
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fattedc 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.