Jeremías 15:12

12 ¿Por ventura el hierro quebrará al hierro de la parte del aquilón, y al bronce?

Jeremías 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.

Jeremías 15:12 In-Context

10 ¡Ay de mí, madre mía, que me has engendrado hombre de contienda y hombre de discordia a toda la tierra! Nunca les di a interés, ni lo tomé de ellos; y todos me maldicen.

11 Dijo el SEÑOR: De cierto tus reliquias serán en bien; de cierto haré que el enemigo te salga a recibir en el tiempo trabajoso, y en el tiempo de angustia.

12 ¿Por ventura el hierro quebrará al hierro de la parte del aquilón, y al bronce?

13 Tus riquezas y tus tesoros daré a despojo sin ningún precio, por todos tus pecados, y en todos tus términos;

14 y te haré servir a tus enemigos en tierra que no conoces; porque fuego es encendido en mi furor, y arderá sobre vosotros.