Jeremias 15:12

12 Pode alguém quebrar o ferro, o ferro do Norte, e o bronze?

Jeremias 15:12 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 15:12

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.

Jeremias 15:12 In-Context

10 Ai de mim, minha mãe! porque me deste � luz, homem de rixas e homem de contendas para toda a terra. Nunca lhes emprestei com usura, nem eles me emprestaram a mim com usura, todavia cada um deles me amaldiçoa.

11 Assim seja, ó Senhor, se jamais deixei de suplicar-te pelo bem deles, ou de rogar-te pelo inimigo no tempo da calamidade e no tempo da angústia.

12 Pode alguém quebrar o ferro, o ferro do Norte, e o bronze?

13 As tuas riquezas e os teus tesouros, eu os entregarei sem preço ao saque; e isso por todos os teus pecados, mesmo em todos os teus limites.

14 E farei que sirvas os teus inimigos numa terra que não conheces; porque o fogo se acendeu em minha ira, e sobre vós arderá.