NET Bible
"I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir."
— Isaiah 13:12, NET Bible
“I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.”
“I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. ”
“I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of 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.”
Look, the LORD’s day of judgment is coming; it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, destroying the earth and annihilating its sinners.
Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.
I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their sin. I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants.
I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.
So I will shake the heavens, and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, because of the fury of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, in the day he vents his raging anger.
Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.
Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.