Isaiah 13:12

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

13Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth doth shake from its place, In the wrath of Jehovah 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 happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

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

Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, 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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