KJV King James Version
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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Isaiah 13:12
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
WEB World English Bible
I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
ASV American Standard Version
I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 13
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
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Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.Isaiah 24:6Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.Psalm 137:9Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.Job 28:16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.Isaiah 13:15-18Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
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