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.
Her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back - translated, 'Also her hired men (mercenary soldiers, Jeremiah 46:9; Jeremiah 46:16), who are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks, even they also are turned back' - i:e., shall turn their backs to flee. The same image, "heifer ... bullocks" (Jeremiah 46:20-21), is applied to Egypt's foreign mercenaries as to herself. Pampered with the luxuries of Egypt, they become as enervated for battle as the natives themselves.