Isaiah 13:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² I will make mortals more rare than fine gold and humans than the gold of Ophir.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² I will make humans scarcer than fine gold; people rarer than the gold of Ophir.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² A man will be more precious than gold, and mankind will become like pure refined gold.

Isaiah 13:12 Cross References

Isaiah 4:1

Seven women shall take hold of one man on that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes; just let us be called by your name; take away our disgrace.”

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth dwindled, and few people are left.

Psalm 137:9

Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!

Job 28:16

It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

1 Kings 9:28

They went to Ophir and imported from there four hundred twenty talents of gold that they delivered to King Solomon.

Psalm 45:9

daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;

Isaiah 6:12

until the Lord sends everyone far away, and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.

1 Chronicles 1:23

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the descendants of Joktan.

Isaiah 10:19

The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.