Isaiah 13:12

I will make man more rare than fine gold, even man than the pure gold of Ophir.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 visit upon the world their evil, and upon the wicked their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants.

13Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of her place, for the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and for the day of His fierce anger.

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Cross References

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

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

Isaiah 10:19And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down.

Isaiah 24:6Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away, and men are left few.

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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