Isaiah 13:12

I will make men more rare than fine gold and mankind harder to find than the pure gold of Ophir. 1

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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 iniquity. 1 I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud and will bring down the arrogance of the ruthless. 1

13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, 1 by the fury of Yahweh of hosts, and on the day of his fierce anger. 1

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 1:23Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were descendants of Joktan.

Psalms 137:9May the person be blessed, whoever takes and dashes your little ones 1 against a rock.

Isaiah 10:19The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few, that a child could count them. 1

Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants are found guilty. 1 The inhabitants of the earth burn up, and few people are left. 1

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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