Isaiah 13:12
Isaiah 13:12 New International Version (NIV)
I will make people scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:9-16 The Message (MSG)
“Watch now. GOD’s Judgment Day comes. Cruel it is, a day of wrath and anger, A day to waste the earth and clean out all the sinners. The stars in the sky, the great parade of constellations, will be nothing but black holes. The sun will come up as a black disk, and the moon a blank nothing. I’ll put a full stop to the evil on earth, terminate the dark acts of the wicked. I’ll gag all braggarts and boasters—not a peep anymore from them— and trip strutting tyrants, leave them flat on their faces. Proud humanity will disappear from the earth. I’ll make mortals rarer than hens’ teeth. And yes, I’ll even make the sky shake, and the earth quake to its roots Under the wrath of GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the Judgment Day of his raging anger. Like a hunted white-tailed deer, like lost sheep with no shepherd, People will huddle with a few of their own kind, run off to some makeshift shelter. But tough luck to stragglers—they’ll be killed on the spot, throats cut, bellies ripped open, Babies smashed on the rocks while mothers and fathers watch, Houses looted, wives raped.
Isaiah 13:12 King James Version (KJV)
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold And mankind than the gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12 New Century Version (NCV)
People will be harder to find than pure gold; there will be fewer people than there is fine gold in Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12 American Standard Version (ASV)
I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12 New King James Version (NKJV)
I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
I will make mortal man more rare than fine gold, And mankind [scarcer] than the pure gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12 New Living Translation (NLT)
I will make people scarcer than gold— more rare than the fine gold of Ophir.