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


In Context

9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to 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 its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its 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 rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

14 And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to 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 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.

The American 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.