Jeremiah 15:12

Will iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

In Context

11Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before thee in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for their good against the enemy.

13Yea, I will give thy treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all thy sins, and that in all thy borders.

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Cross References

Isaiah 45:9What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman plough the earth all day? + 45:9 Rom. 9. 20. shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

Jeremiah 21:4Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war wherewith ye fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

Habakkuk 1:5Behold, ye despisers, and look, and wonder marvellously, and vanish: for I work a work in your days, which ye will in no wise believe, though a man declare it to you.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 15:11-15

The Prophet's Complaint; The Prophet Assured of His Safety. ( b. c. 606.) 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. 11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance and… Read the whole commentary →

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