Isaiah 13:12 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

I will make people harder to find than pure gold and human beings more rare than gold from Ophir.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Isaiah 13:12 Cross References

XREF:

1 Kings 9:28 They went to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.

Job 28:16 "It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, In precious onyx, or sapphire.

Psalm 45:9 Kings' daughters are among Your noble ladies; At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

Isaiah 4:1 For seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!"

Isaiah 6:11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered, "Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,

Isaiah 6:12 "The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

13:12 I will make a {l} man more rare than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
(l) He notes the great slaughter that will be, seeing the enemy will neither for gold or silver spare a man's life as in Isa 13:17.

WES:

13:12 More precious - The city and nation shall be so depopulated.

MHC:

13:6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. Their faces shall be scorched with the flame. All comfort and hope shall fail. The stars of heaven shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened. Such expressions are often employed by the prophets, to describe the convulsions of governments. God will visit them for their iniquity, particularly the sin of pride, which brings men low. There shall be a general scene of horror. Those who join themselves to Babylon, must expect to share her plagues, Re 18:4. All that men have, they would give for their lives, but no man's riches shall be the ransom of his life. Pause here and wonder that men should be thus cruel and inhuman, and see how corrupt the nature of man is become. And that little infants thus suffer, which shows that there is an original guilt, by which life is forfeited as soon as it is begun. The day of the Lord will, indeed, be terrible with wrath and fierce anger, far beyond all here stated. Nor will there be any place for the sinner to flee to, or attempt an escape. But few act as though they believed these things.

CONC:

Best Common Fine Gold Golden Harder Mankind Mortal Ophir Precious Pure Rare Scarcer Wedge

Fine Gold Golden Harder Mankind Mortal Ophir Precious Pure Rare Small Wedge

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