Jeremiah 46:16 meaning and explanation
They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’
Jeremiah 46:16, Berean Standard Bible
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The speakers are the hired soldiers in Egypt's army, described in verse 21 as mercenaries from Cush, Put and Lydia. Jeremiah pictures Egypt's defeat at the Euphrates, and these foreign troops, seeing the battle turn, stumble over one another and call out to return home, away from the sword of the oppressor, meaning Babylon.
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