Isaiah 13:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Isaiah 13:12 Cross References

1 Kings 9:28

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Chronicles 1:23

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; All these were the sons of Joktan.

Job 28:16

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

Psalm 137:9

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.

Psalm 45:9

Kings' daughters are among thy honourable women: At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 10:19

And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Isaiah 4:1

And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saving, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.

Isaiah 6:11

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

Isaiah 6:12

and the LORD have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.