Isaiah 13:12
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12 in other translations
| BSB | I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir. |
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| WEB | I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir. |
| ASV | I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. |
| YLT | I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir. |
| DARBY | I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir. |
| BBE | I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir. |
| Webster | I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. |
What does Isaiah 13:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 13:6-18
We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. Their faces shall be scorched with the flame. All comfort and hope shall fail. The stars of heaven shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened. Such expressions are often employed by the prophets, to describe the…
Isaiah 13:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 13:12
- Isaiah 4:1
And 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 24:6
Therefore 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.
- Psalms 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
- Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- Isaiah 13:15-18
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
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Context
- Isaiah 13:11
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.
- Isaiah 13:12
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:13
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.
Isaiah 13:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Haré más precioso que el oro fino al varón, y más que el oro de Ophir al hombre. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je ferai qu’un mortel sera plus précieux que l’or fin, et un homme, plus que l’or d’Ophir. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich will den Sterblichen kostbarer machen als gediegenes Gold, und den Menschen als Gold von Ophir. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Pretiosior erit vir auro, et homo mundo obrizo. |