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


In Context

9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

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

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

14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their 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 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.