Isaiah 13:12
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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- Isa 4:1 : 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.
- Isa 24:6 : 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.
- Isa 13:15-18 : 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword. 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it. 18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
- Job 28:16 : 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- Ps 137:9 : 9 Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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