11 And I will visit the wickedness upon the [a]world, and their iniquity upon the wicked, and I will cause the arrogancy of the [b]proud to cease, and will cast down the pride of tyrants.

12 I will make a [c]man more precious than fine gold, even a man above the wedge of gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will shake the heaven, and the earth shall remove out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:11 He compareth Babylon to the whole world, because they so esteemed themselves by reason of their great empire.
  2. Isaiah 13:11 He noteth the principal vice, whereunto they are most given, as are all that abound in wealth.
  3. Isaiah 13:12 He noteth the great slaughter that shall be, seeing the enemy shall neither for gold, or silver spare a man’s life, as verse 17.

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