Jeremias 15:12

12 “Será alguém capaz de quebrar o ferro,o ferro que vem do norte, ou 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, por me haver dado à luz!Pois sou um homem em luta e em contenda com a terra toda!Nunca emprestei nem tomei emprestado,e assim mesmo todos me amaldiçoam.

11 O SENHOR disse:“Eu certamente o fortaleci para o beme intervim por você,na época da desgraça e da adversidade,por causa do inimigo.

12 “Será alguém capaz de quebrar o ferro,o ferro que vem do norte, ou o bronze?

13 “Diga a esse povo: Darei de graça a sua riquezae os seus tesouros como despojo,por causa de todos os seus pecadosem toda a sua terra.

14 Eu os tornarei escravos de seus inimigos,numa terra que vocês não conhecem,pois a minha ira acenderá um fogoque arderá contra vocês”.