Jeremiah 15:10-12

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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.^{(A) 11} The Lord said: Surely I have intervened in your life^[a] for good; surely I have brought enemies upon you^[b] in a time of trouble and in a time of distress.^{(B) 12} Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?