Isaiah 13:12

I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

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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 their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in 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,who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

Isaiah 10:19The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

Isaiah 24:6Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men 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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