“I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 13 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.