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Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 15:12
Shall the yron breake the yron, and the brasse that commeth from the North?
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Christian Standard Bible®
Can anyone smash iron,iron from the north, or bronze?
Can anyone smash iron,iron from the north, or bronze?
Hebrew Names Version
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
King James Version
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
English Standard Version
Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
New American Standard Bible
"Can anyone smash iron, Iron from the north, or bronze?
"Can anyone smash iron, Iron from the north, or bronze?
New Century Version
No one can smash a piece of iron or bronze that comes from the north.
No one can smash a piece of iron or bronze that comes from the north.
Amplified Bible
"Can anyone crush iron, The iron from the north, or bronze?
"Can anyone crush iron, The iron from the north, or bronze?
World English Bible
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
Legacy Standard Bible
"Can anyone smash iron,Iron from the north, or bronze?
"Can anyone smash iron,Iron from the north, or bronze?
Berean Standard Bible
Can anyone smash iron-iron from the north-or bronze?
Can anyone smash iron-iron from the north-or bronze?
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me to say: People of Judah, just as you can't break iron mixed with bronze, you can't defeat the enemies that will attack from the north.
The Lord told me to say: People of Judah, just as you can't break iron mixed with bronze, you can't defeat the enemies that will attack from the north.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Can iron break iron and bronze from the north?
"Can iron break iron and bronze from the north?
Darby Translation
Will iron break? iron from the north? and bronze?
Will iron break? iron from the north? and bronze?
Easy-to-Read Version
"Jeremiah, you know that no one can shatter a piece of iron. I mean the kind of iron that is from the north. And no one can shatter a piece of bronze either.
"Jeremiah, you know that no one can shatter a piece of iron. I mean the kind of iron that is from the north. And no one can shatter a piece of bronze either.
George Lamsa Translation
For he is hard as iron and as brass.
For he is hard as iron and as brass.
Good News Translation
(No one can break iron, especially the iron from the north that is mixed with bronze.)
(No one can break iron, especially the iron from the north that is mixed with bronze.)
Lexham English Bible
Can anyone break iron, iron from the north, or bronze?
Can anyone break iron, iron from the north, or bronze?
Literal Translation
Can one break iron, iron or bronze from the north?
Can one break iron, iron or bronze from the north?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Doth one yron hurte another, or one metall that cometh from the north, another?
Doth one yron hurte another, or one metall that cometh from the north, another?
American Standard Version
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
Bible in Basic English
Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?
Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Can iron break iron from the north and brass?
Can iron break iron from the north and brass?
King James Version (1611)
Shall yron breake the Northren yron, and the steele?
Shall yron breake the Northren yron, and the steele?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Doth one iron hurt another? or one metall that commeth from the north another?
Doth one iron hurt another? or one metall that commeth from the north another?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Will iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.
Will iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.
English Revised Version
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether yrun and metal schal be ioyned bi pees to irun fro the north?
Whether yrun and metal schal be ioyned bi pees to irun fro the north?
Update Bible Version
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze?
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze?
Webster's Bible Translation
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
New English Translation
Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?
Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?
New King James Version
Can anyone break iron, The northern iron and the bronze?
Can anyone break iron, The northern iron and the bronze?
New Living Translation
Can a man break a bar of iron from the north, or a bar of bronze?
Can a man break a bar of iron from the north, or a bar of bronze?
New Life Bible
"Can anyone crush iron, iron from the north, or brass?
"Can anyone crush iron, iron from the north, or brass?
New Revised Standard
Can iron and bronze break iron from the north?
Can iron and bronze break iron from the north?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Shall iron crush the iron from the North and the bronze?
Shall iron crush the iron from the North and the bronze?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?
Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?
Revised Standard Version
Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
Young's Literal Translation
Doth one break iron -- northern iron, and brass?
Doth one break iron -- northern iron, and brass?
THE MESSAGE
"O Israel, O Judah, what are your chances against the iron juggernaut from the north? In punishment for your sins, I'm giving away everything you've got, giving it away for nothing. I'll make you slaves to your enemies in a strange and far-off land. My anger is blazing and fierce, burning in hot judgment against you."
"O Israel, O Judah, what are your chances against the iron juggernaut from the north? In punishment for your sins, I'm giving away everything you've got, giving it away for nothing. I'll make you slaves to your enemies in a strange and far-off land. My anger is blazing and fierce, burning in hot judgment against you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Can anyone smash iron, Iron from the north, or bronze?
"Can anyone smash iron, Iron from the north, or bronze?
Contextual Overview
10 Wo is mee, my mother, that thou hast borne mee, a contentious man, and a man that striueth with the whole earth I haue neither lent on vsury, nor men haue lent vnto me on vsurie: yet euery one doeth curse me. 11 The Lord sayd, Surely thy remnant shal haue wealth: surely I will cause thine enemie to intreate thee in the time of trouble, & in the time of affliction. 12 Shall the yron breake the yron, and the brasse that commeth from the North? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures wil I giue to be spoyled without gaine, and that for all thy sinnes euen in all thy borders. 14 And I wil make thee to go with thine enemies into a land that thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shal burne you.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Shall iron: Jeremiah 1:18, Jeremiah 1:19, Jeremiah 21:4, Jeremiah 21:5, Job 40:9, Isaiah 45:9, Habakkuk 1:5-10
Reciprocal: Daniel 2:40 - forasmuch 1 John 5:15 - if
Cross-References
Genesis 2:21
Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.
Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.
Genesis 15:3
Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.
Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.
Genesis 15:5
Moreouer he brought him forth and said, Looke vp nowe vnto heauen, and tell ye starres, if thou be able to number them: and he said vnto him, So shall thy seede be.
Moreouer he brought him forth and said, Looke vp nowe vnto heauen, and tell ye starres, if thou be able to number them: and he said vnto him, So shall thy seede be.
Genesis 15:8
And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?
And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?
Genesis 15:9
Then he said vnto him, Take me an heifer of three yeeres olde, and a shee goate of three yeeres olde, and a ramme of three yeeres olde, a turtle doue also and a pigeon.
Then he said vnto him, Take me an heifer of three yeeres olde, and a shee goate of three yeeres olde, and a ramme of three yeeres olde, a turtle doue also and a pigeon.
Genesis 15:13
Then he saide to Abram, Knowe for a suretie, that thy seede shalbe a stranger in a land, that is not theirs, foure hundreth yeeres, and shall serue them: & they shall intreate them euill.
Then he saide to Abram, Knowe for a suretie, that thy seede shalbe a stranger in a land, that is not theirs, foure hundreth yeeres, and shall serue them: & they shall intreate them euill.
Genesis 15:14
Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall serue, will I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall serue, will I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
1 Samuel 26:12
So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water from Sauls head, and they gate them away, and no man saw it, nor marked it, neither did any awake, but they were all asleepe: for the Lorde had sent a dead sleepe vpon them.
So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water from Sauls head, and they gate them away, and no man saw it, nor marked it, neither did any awake, but they were all asleepe: for the Lorde had sent a dead sleepe vpon them.
Job 33:15
In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,
In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,
Acts 20:9
And there sate in a windowe a certaine yong man, named Eutychus, fallen into a dead sleepe: and as Paul was long preaching, hee ouercome with sleepe, fell downe from the thirde loft, and was taken vp dead.
And there sate in a windowe a certaine yong man, named Eutychus, fallen into a dead sleepe: and as Paul was long preaching, hee ouercome with sleepe, fell downe from the thirde loft, and was taken vp dead.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?] Can iron break iron, especially that which comes from the north, which was harder than the common iron; or steel, the hardest of all? though the Jews were hard as iron, they could not prevail against and overcome Jeremiah, who was made an iron pillar and brasen walls against them, Jeremiah 1:18, and so these words are spoken for his comfort and encouragement: or they may respect the Jews and the Chaldeans; and the sense be, that the Jews, as mighty and as strong as they fancied themselves to be, and boasted that they were, they could not find themselves a match for the Chaldean army, which came out of the north; and may be said to be as hard as the northern iron, which came from the Chalybes, a people in the north, near Pontus, from whom steel has its name in the Latin tongue; and this sense agrees with what follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The steel - “brass,” i. e., bronze. By the “iron” is meant Jeremiah’s intercession; but this cannot alter the divine purpose to send Judah into exile, which is firm as steel and brass. For “brass” see Exodus 25:3 note. The alloy of copper and zinc now called brass was entirely unknown to the ancients.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 15:12. Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? — Shall our weak forces be able to oppose and overcome the powers of the Chaldeans? נחשת nechasheth, which we here translate steel, property signifies brass or copper united with tin, which gives it much hardness, and enables it to bear a good edge.
