Jeremiah 15:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. ¹¹ The Lord said: Surely I have intervened in your life^[a] for good, surely I have imposed enemies on you in a time of trouble and in a time of distress.^{[b] 12} Can iron and bronze break iron from the north?