Jeremiah 15:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Can anyone smash iron— iron from the north—or bronze?”
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BSBPD
“Can anyone smash iron— iron from the north—or bronze?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Doth one break iron--northern iron, and brass?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Jeremiah 15:12 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
- Isaiah 45:9Woe 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’?
- Jeremiah 1:18Now 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 21:4this 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.
- Jeremiah 28:14For 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.’”
- Habakkuk 1:5“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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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