American King James Version
"Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? "
— Jeremiah 15:12, American King James Version
“Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?”
“Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? ”
“Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?”
“Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?”
“Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?”
“Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?”
“Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?”
She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD. ¶
Woe is me, my mother, that you have 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 does curse me.
The LORD said, Truly it shall be well with your remnant; truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Your substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land which you know not: for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you. ¶
O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your long-suffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.