Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Can anyone crush iron,
The iron from the north, or bronze?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Holman Bible
iron from the north, or bronze?
International Standard Version
"Can anyone break iron iron from the north or bronze?
A Conservative Version
Can a man break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
American Standard Version
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?
Darby Translation
Will iron break? iron from the north? and bronze?
Julia Smith Translation
Shall iron break the iron of the north, and brass?
King James 2000
Can anyone break iron, the northern iron and the bronze?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Can anyone break iron, iron from the north, or bronze?
Modern King James verseion
Can one break iron, iron or bronze from the north?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Doth one iron hurt another, or one metal that cometh from the North, another?
NET Bible
Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?
New Heart English Bible
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze?
The Emphasized Bible
Shall iron crush the iron from the North and the bronze?
Webster
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
World English Bible
Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
Youngs Literal Translation
Doth one break iron -- northern iron, and brass?
Interlinear
Ra`a`
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 15:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jeremiah's Lament And Yahweh's Response
11
The Lord said, “Surely [it will go well for Judah’s obedient remnant for] I will set you free for good purposes;
Surely [Jeremiah] I will [intercede for you with the enemy and I will] cause the enemy to plead with you [for help]
In a time of disaster and a time of distress.
“Can anyone crush iron,
The iron from the north, or bronze?
“Your [nation’s] riches and your treasures
I will give as plunder without price [to the Babylonians],
Because of all your sins
And within all your territories.
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:18-19
Now behold, I have made you today like a fortified city and like an iron pillar and like bronze walls against the whole land—against the [successive] kings of Judah, against its leaders, against its priests, and against the people of the land [giving you divine strength which no hostile power can overcome].
Habakkuk 1:5-10
[The Lord replied,] “Look among the nations! See!
Be astonished! Wonder!
For I am doing something in your days—
You would not believe it if you were told.
Job 40:9
“Have you an arm like God,
And can you thunder with a voice like His?
Isaiah 45:9
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who quarrels with his Maker—
A [worthless] piece of broken pottery among other broken pieces [equally worthless]!
Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or does the thing say, ‘He has no hands’?
Jeremiah 21:4-5
‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Behold, I will turn back and dull the edge of the weapons of war that are in your hands, [those] with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the
Jeremiah 28:14
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “I have put the iron yoke [of servitude] on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. And I have even given him the beasts of the field.”’”