Jeremiah 15:12

In 11 translations

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?

LSV

Does one break iron, || Northern iron and bronze?

YLT

Doth one break iron — northern iron, and brass?

DBY

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

DRC

Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?

GNV

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

JPS

Can iron break iron from the north and brass?

LXXE

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

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WLC

הֲיָרֹ֨עַ בַּרְזֶ֧ל ׀ בַּרְזֶ֛ל מִצָּפ֖וֹן וּנְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

LXX-Br

Εἰ γνωσθήσεται σίδηρος; καὶ περιβόλαιον χαλκοῦν ἡ ἰσχύς σου.

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• Jeremiah 1:18–19Now 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. They will fight…
• 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…
• 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 21:4–5this 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…
• 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. For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans — that ruthless and impetuous…

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