Isaiah 13:12

I make man more rare than fine gold, || And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.

Literal Standard Version

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

11“And I have appointed evil on the world, || And on the wicked their iniquity, || And have caused the excellence of the proud to cease, || And I make the excellence of the terrible low.

13Therefore I cause the heavens to tremble, || And the earth shakes from its place, || In the wrath of YHWH of Hosts, || And in a day of the heat of His anger.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 1:23and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these [are] sons of Joktan.

Psalms 137:9O the blessedness of him who seizes, and has dashed your sucklings on the rock!

Isaiah 10:19And the rest of the trees of his forest [are] few, || And a youth writes them.

Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, || And the inhabitants in it become desolate, || Therefore inhabitants of the earth have been consumed, || And few men have been 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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