Jeremiah 15:12

Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

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Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

In Context

11The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with your remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to plead you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

13Your substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.

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Cross References

Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands?

Jeremiah 21:4Thus says the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith all of you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

Habakkuk 1:5Behold all of you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which all of you will not believe, though it be told 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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