American Standard Version
"I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. "
— Isaiah 13:12, American Standard Version
“I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.”
“I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.”
“I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.”
“A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.”
“I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.”
“I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.”
Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its 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 rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.