Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 15:12

A church father on this verse
“Upon these things [what] does God answer to the people that was accused by the prophet or by Christ, and he says these things to it: "Iron and a covering of bronze is your strength"—hard, unyielding, not to be hammered out. "Iron and a covering of bronze is your strength," that is, your strength is something cutting a…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 14

Source: Septuagint

Original

12Will iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.

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10Woe is me, my mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has anyone helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

11Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before thee in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for their good against the enemy.

— Jeremiah 15:12 —

13Yea, I will give thy treasures for a spoil as a recompense, because of all thy sins, and that in all thy borders.

14And I will enslave thee to thine enemies round about, in a land which thou hast not known; for a fire has been kindled out of my wrath; it shall burn upon you.

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