Isaiah 13:12
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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.

Lexicon
{I will make} man
אֱנ֖וֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

scarcer
אוֹקִ֥יר (’ō·w·qîr)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3365: To be heavy, valuable, to make rare

than pure gold,
מִפָּ֑ז (mip·pāz)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6337: Refined, pure gold

and mankind
וְאָדָ֖ם (wə·’ā·ḏām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being

rarer than the gold
מִכֶּ֥תֶם (mik·ke·ṯem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3800: Something carved out, ore, gold

of Ophir.
אוֹפִֽיר׃ (’ō·w·p̄îr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 211: Ophir -- a son of Joktan, also his descendants, also a region from which gold comes


Additional Translations
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.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.

And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.

I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

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 make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.
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