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12 Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?

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Look at the nations and see!
    Be astonished! Be astounded!
For a work is being done in your days
    that you would not believe if you were told.(A)
For I am rousing the Chaldeans,
    that fierce and impetuous nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth
    to seize dwellings not their own.(B)
Dread and fearsome are they;
    their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.(C)
Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more menacing than wolves at dusk;
    their horses charge.
Their horsemen come from far away;
    they fly like an eagle swift to devour.(D)
They all come for violence,
    with faces pressing[a] forward;
    they gather captives like sand.(E)
10 At kings they scoff,
    and of rulers they make sport.
They laugh at every fortress
    and heap up earth to take it.(F)

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  1. 1.9 Meaning of Heb uncertain

14 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations so that they may serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and they shall indeed serve him; I have even given him the wild animals.(A)

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Thus you shall say to Zedekiah: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls, and I will bring them together into the center of this city.(A) I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and mighty arm, in anger, in fury, and in great wrath.(B)

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18 And I for my part have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.(A) 19 They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you.”(B)

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Woe to those who strive with their Maker,
    earthen vessels with the potter![a]
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?
    or “Your work has no handles”?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 45.9 Cn: Heb with the potsherds or with the potters

Have you an arm like God,
    and can you thunder with a voice like his?(A)

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