Jeremiah 15:12
New King James Version
12 Can anyone break iron,
The northern iron and the bronze?
Habakkuk 1:5-10
New King James Version
The Lord’s Reply
5 “Look(A) among the nations and watch—
Be utterly astounded!
For I will work a work in your days
Which you would not believe, though it were told you.
6 For indeed I am (B)raising up the Chaldeans,
A bitter and hasty (C)nation
Which marches through the breadth of the earth,
To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful;
Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 Their horses also are (D)swifter than leopards,
And more fierce than evening wolves.
Their [a]chargers [b]charge ahead;
Their cavalry comes from afar;
They fly as the (E)eagle that hastens to eat.
9 “They all come for violence;
Their faces are set like the east wind.
They gather captives like sand.
10 They scoff at kings,
And princes are scorned by them.
They deride every stronghold,
For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. horsemen
- Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. spring about
Jeremiah 28:14
New King James Version
14 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)“I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him. (B)I have given him the beasts of the field also.” ’ ”
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Jeremiah 21:4-5
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4 ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the [a]Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and (A)I will assemble them in the midst of this city. 5 I (B)Myself will fight against you with an (C)outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and great wrath.
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- Jeremiah 21:4 Or Babylonians, and so elsewhere in the book
Jeremiah 1:18-19
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18 For behold, I have made you this day
(A)A fortified city and an iron pillar,
And bronze walls against the whole land—
Against the kings of Judah,
Against its princes,
Against its priests,
And against the people of the land.
19 They will fight against you,
But they shall not prevail against you.
For I am with you,” says the Lord, “to deliver you.”
Isaiah 45:9
New King James Version
9 “Woe to him who strives with (A)his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth!
(B)Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
Job 40:9
New King James Version
9 Have you an arm like God?
Or can you thunder with (A)a voice like His?
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