"I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." — Isaiah 13:12

Isaiah 13:12 · KJV

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

— Isaiah 13:12

And I will punish the world for {their} evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Verse 13

Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 13 — Context

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

And I will punish the world for {their} evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

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

Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

Cross References

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, to take away our reproach. {let...: Heb. let thy name be called upon us} {to take...: or, take thou away}

Isaiah 24:6

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

Job 28:16

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

Psalms 137:9

Happy {shall he be}, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. {the stones: Heb. the rock}

Isaiah 13:15-18

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined {unto them} shall fall by the sword.