Isaiah 13:12

I will make people scarcer than pure gold, rarer than the gold of Ophir.

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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 sin, says the Lord. I will put an end to the conceit of the arrogant, and I will humiliate tyrants and their pride.

13So I will shake the heavens and make the earth jump out of its place because of the fury of the Lord Almighty, at the time when his anger burns.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 1:23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were all Joktan's sons.

Psalms 137:9Happy is the one who grabs your children and smashes them against the rocks!

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

Isaiah 24:6That is why a curse is destroying the earth. The people suffer because of their guilt. The inhabitants of the earth are burned up 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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