Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

In Context

11And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.

13Therefore I will make the heavens to shake, and the earth shall be removed out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 1:23and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were sons of Joktan.

Psalms 137:9Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

Isaiah 10:19And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few: yea, a child might write them.

Isaiah 24:6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 13:7-19

The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy… Read the whole commentary →

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