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


In Context

9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, 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 arrogance 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 takes up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

Isaiah 13:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:12A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:12I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:12I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:12I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:12I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:12I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.