Isaiah 34:12 “No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will co…”

Isaiah 34:12

No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

World English Bible

They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

American Standard Version

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

Geneva Bible 1599

The nobles thereof shall call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as nothing.

Darby Translation

Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.

Young's Literal Translation

[To] the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.

Bible in Basic English

The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.

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Cross references

“call”

Isaiah 3:6–8 Ecclesiastes 10:16 Ecclesiastes 10:17

Isaiah 3:6–8 · BSB

A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

Ecclesiastes 10:16 · BSB

Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

Ecclesiastes 10:17 · BSB

Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness.

“nothing”

Isaiah 41:24 1 Corinthians 8:4 1 Corinthians 13:2 2 Corinthians 12:11

Isaiah 41:24 · BSB

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

1 Corinthians 8:4 · BSB

So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 13:2 · BSB

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:11 · BSB

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Also

Jeremiah 39:6 Isaiah 41:11–12 Jeremiah 27:20

Jeremiah 39:6 · BSB

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

Isaiah 41:11–12 · BSB

Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.

Jeremiah 27:20 · BSB

which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

13Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

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