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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Jeremiah 15:12
"Can anyone crush iron, iron from the north, or brass?
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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?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Shall the yron breake the yron, and the brasse that commeth from the North?
Shall the yron breake the yron, and the brasse that commeth from the North?
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 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 It is bad for me, my mother, that you have given birth to me! I am a man of trouble and fighting to all the land. No one owes money to me, and I do not owe money to others, yet every one curses me. 11 The Lord said, "For sure I will set you free for a good reason. For sure I will make those who hate you ask of you in times of trouble and suffering. 12 "Can anyone crush iron, iron from the north, or brass? 13 I will give your money and riches to those who fight against you, without a price, because of all your sins in all your land. 14 I will make those who hate you bring your riches into a land you do not know. For My anger has started a fire that will burn 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
So the Lord God put the man to sleep as if he were dead. And while he was sleeping, He took one of the bones from his side and closed up the place with flesh.
So the Lord God put the man to sleep as if he were dead. And while he was sleeping, He took one of the bones from his side and closed up the place with flesh.
Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "Because You have not given me a child, one born in my house will be given all I have."
Abram said, "Because You have not given me a child, one born in my house will be given all I have."
Genesis 15:5
He took him outside and said, "Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them." Then He said to him, "Your children and your children's children will be as many as the stars."
He took him outside and said, "Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them." Then He said to him, "Your children and your children's children will be as many as the stars."
Genesis 15:8
And Abram said, "O Lord God, how may I know that it will be mine?"
And Abram said, "O Lord God, how may I know that it will be mine?"
Genesis 15:9
So the Lord said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon."
So the Lord said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:13
God said to Abram, "Know for sure that your children and those born after them will be strangers in a land that is not theirs. There they will be servants and suffer for 400 years.
God said to Abram, "Know for sure that your children and those born after them will be strangers in a land that is not theirs. There they will be servants and suffer for 400 years.
Genesis 15:14
But I will punish the nation they will serve. And later they will come out with many riches.
But I will punish the nation they will serve. And later they will come out with many riches.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the bottle of water from beside Saul's head, and they went away. But no one saw it, or knew it, and no one woke, for they were all sleeping. A deep sleep from the Lord had come upon them.
So David took the spear and the bottle of water from beside Saul's head, and they went away. But no one saw it, or knew it, and no one woke, for they were all sleeping. A deep sleep from the Lord had come upon them.
Job 33:15
In a dream, a special dream of the night, when deep sleep comes upon men, while they sleep in their beds,
In a dream, a special dream of the night, when deep sleep comes upon men, while they sleep in their beds,
Acts 20:9
A young man named Eutychus sat in the window. As Paul kept on preaching, this man started to go to sleep. At last he went to sleep. He fell from the third floor to the ground and was picked up dead.
A young man named Eutychus sat in the window. As Paul kept on preaching, this man started to go to sleep. At last he went to sleep. He fell from the third floor to the ground and was picked up 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.
