Jeremiah 15:12 Cross References - Thomson

¹² Shall the sword be felt and thy strength be a coat of mail?

⁹ Hast thou an arm to contend against the Lord, or dost thou thunder with a voice against Him?

⁹ Is any thing endowed with excellence? I fashioned it like the clay of a potter. Will the ploughman plough the ground all the day long? Will the clay say to the potter, "What art thou making?" Or the work to the Workman, "Thou hast not hands"" Will the thing formed reply against him who formed it?

¹⁸ Behold I have made thee this day, like a fortified city and like a wall of brass, too strong for all the kings of Juda and the chiefs thereof and the people of the land. ¹⁹ Though they fight against thee they cannot prevail over thee; for I am with thee to deliver thee saith the Lord.

⁴ Thus saith the Lord, Behold I turn back the weapons of war with which you fight against the Chaldeans who have besieged you without the wall. And I will bring them into this city. ⁵ I myself indeed will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a strong arm, with wrath and with great indignation.

¹⁴ For thus said the Lord, I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all the nations, that they may work for the king of Babylon."

⁵ [J] See ye despisers! and view intently and be amazed at wonderful things and vanish. For in your days I am doing a work which you will not believe though one tell you. ⁶ For lo! I am raising up the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty nation, which marcheth over the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellings which belong not to them. ⁷ He is terrible and illustrious; his judgment will be from himself, and from himself his prophesy will proceed. ⁸ His horses can out leap leopards and are swifter than the lynxes of Arabia. When his horsemen have mounted, they will rush impetuously from afar, and will fly like an eagle, eager for prey. ⁹ Destruction will come on the wicked who set themselves against him; and he will gather captives like the sand. ¹⁰ He indeed will riot in kings; and petty princes will be his scorn. Of every fortress he will make a scoff and will raise a mount and take it.