Isaiah 13:12

And because I will cause most people to die, people will be harder to find than gold, harder to find than fine gold from Ophir in Arabia.

Translation for Translators

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

11Yahweh says, “I will punish everyone in the world for the evil things that they do; I will punish the wicked people for the sins that they have committed. I will stop arrogant/proud people from being proud, and I will stop ruthless people from acting cruelly.

13I will shake the sky, and the earth will also move out of its place. That will happen when I, the Commander of the armies of angels, punish wicked people, when I show them that I am extremely angry with them.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 1:23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab.

Psalms 137:9they will take your babies and completely smash them on the rocks.

Isaiah 10:19There will be very few trees left in those forests; even a child will be able to count them.”

Isaiah 24:6Therefore, Yahweh will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and only a few people will remain alive.

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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