Isaiah 13:12

WEB

¹²I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

KJV

¹²I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

BSB

¹²I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

FBV

¹²I will make people scarcer than pure gold, rarer than the gold of Ophir.

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Extra References

Isaiah 4:1

¹Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

Isaiah 24:6

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 are left.

Psalms 137:9

⁹Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

Job 28:16

¹⁶It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. ¹⁶Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. ¹⁸Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.