Isaiah 13:12

I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

Berean Standard Bible

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

11I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

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Cross References

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

Psalms 137:9Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

Isaiah 10:19The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.

Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

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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