Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north? ¹ 

As ¹  iron sharpens ²  iron, so a person ³  sharpens his friend. ⁴ 

The bars of your gates ¹  will be made of iron and bronze, and may you have lifelong strength.

that with an iron chisel and with lead ¹  they were engraved in a rock forever!

If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow ¹  from a bronze bow pierces him.

Iron is taken from the ground, ¹  and rock is poured out ²  as copper.

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

You will break them ¹  with an iron scepter; ²  you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’” ³ 

The shackles hurt his feet; ¹  his neck was placed in an iron collar, ² 

They sat in utter darkness, ¹  bound in painful iron chains, ² 

They bind ¹  their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,

It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars. ¹ 

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall. ¹ 

I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, ¹  he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Then you must build an altar there to the Lord your God, an altar of stones – do not use an iron tool on them.

The ¹  sky ²  above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord. ¹  They must go into the Lord’s treasury.”

The one who touches them must use an iron instrument or the wooden shaft of a spear. They are completely burned up right where they lie!” ¹