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12 Can anyone break iron,
    iron from the north, or bronze?
13 I will give your wealth and your treasures
    as plunder without price,
even because of all your sins,
    and throughout all your territories.
14 And I will make you serve your enemies
    in a land that you do not know,
for a fire will kindle in my anger.
    Upon you it will be kindled.”

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12 [a]Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. 14 And [b]I will make them to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

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  1. Jeremiah 15:12 Or, Can iron break iron from etc.
  2. Jeremiah 15:14 Or, I will make thine enemies to pass into etc.

12 “Can a man break iron—
    iron from the north(A)—or bronze?

13 “Your wealth(B) and your treasures
    I will give as plunder,(C) without charge,(D)
because of all your sins
    throughout your country.(E)
14 I will enslave you to your enemies
    in[a] a land you do not know,(F)
for my anger will kindle a fire(G)
    that will burn against you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 17:4); most Hebrew manuscripts I will cause your enemies to bring you / into