Jeremiah 15:12 “Can anyone smash iron— iron from the north—or bronze?”

Jeremiah 15:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

World English Bible

Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze?

American Standard Version

Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

Geneva Bible 1599

Shall the yron breake the yron, and the brasse that commeth from the North?

Darby Translation

Will iron break? iron from the north? and bronze?

Young's Literal Translation

Doth one break iron — northern iron, and brass?

Bible in Basic English

Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?

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Cross references

“Shall iron”

Job 40:9 Isaiah 45:9 Habakkuk 1:5–10 Jeremiah 1:18 Jeremiah 1:19 Jeremiah 21:4

Job 40:9 · BSB

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

Isaiah 45:9 · BSB

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’?

Habakkuk 1:5–10 · BSB

“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.

Jeremiah 1:18 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 1:19 · BSB

They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 21:4 · BSB

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 as…

Also

Jeremiah 28:14

Jeremiah 28:14 · BSB

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 c…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11The 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.

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

Read Jeremiah 15