Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man more precious then fine golde, euen a man aboue the wedge of golde of Ophir.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 visite the wickednes vpon the worlde, and their iniquitie vpon the wicked, and I wil cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will cast downe the pride of tyrants.

13Therefore I will shake the heauen, and the earth shall remooue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 1:23And Ophir, and Hauilah and Iobab: all these were the sonnes of Ioktan.

Psalms 137:9Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.

Isaiah 10:19And the rest of the trees of his forest shalbe fewe, that a childe may tell them.

Isaiah 24:6Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the inhabitantes thereof are desolate. Wherefore the inhabitants of the land are burned vp, and fewe men are 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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