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Jeremiah 15:12

10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

11 The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.

Can anyone smash iron— iron from the north—or bronze?

13 Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.

14 Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Can anyone smash iron— iron from the north—or bronze?
KJV
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
WEB
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze?
ASV
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
DARBY
Will iron break? iron from the north? and bronze?
BLB
Can one break iron—iron from the north—and bronze?
ÅB
Kan vel jern brytes, jern fra Norden, og kobber?
OTB
“Kan noen bryte jern, jern fra nord, eller bronse?
B1930
Kan vel jern brytes, jern fra Norden, og kobber?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Habakkuk 1:5–10

    “Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.

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  • Job 40:9

    Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

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  • Jeremiah 21:4–5

    this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.

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  • Isaiah 45:9

    Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

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  • Jeremiah 1:18–19

    Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

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  • Jeremiah 28:14

    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”

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