◄ Isaiah 13:12 ►
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Good News Translation
Those who survive will be scarcer than gold.

New Revised Standard Version
I will make mortals more rare than fine gold, and humans than the gold of Ophir.

Contemporary English Version
Survivors will be harder to find than the purest gold.

New American Bible
I will make mortals more rare than pure gold, human beings, than the gold of Ophir.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Isaiah 13:15-18 Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword. . . .

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

Isaiah 24:6 Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left.

Psalm 137:9 Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.

Context
An Oracle Concerning Babylon
…11And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty. 12A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.13For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day of his fierce wrath.…
Cross References
1 Kings 9:28
And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Job 28:16
It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.

Psalm 45:9
The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.

Isaiah 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

Isaiah 6:11
And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

Isaiah 6:12
And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.

Isaiah 13:11
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