Isaiah 34:12

Geneva Bible

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

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

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

English Standard Version
Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom, and all its princes shall be nothing.

New American Standard Bible
Its nobles—there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king— And all its officials will be nothing.

New Century Version
The important people will have no one left to rule them; the leaders will all be gone.

Amplified Bible
Its nobles—there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king— And all its princes will be nothing.

World English Bible
They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

Legacy Standard Bible
Its nobles—there is no one thereWhom they may proclaim king—And all its princes will be non‑existent.

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

Contemporary English Version
Edom will be called "Kingdom of Nothing." Its rulers will also be nothing.

Complete Jewish Bible
Of its nobles, none will be called to be king, and all its princes will be nothing.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
The free men and leaders will all be gone, and there will be nothing left for them to rule.

George Lamsa Translation
They shall no more call it a kingdom there, and all her princes shall perish.

Good News Translation
There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.

Lexham English Bible
Its nobles—but no kingdom is there—shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing.

Literal Translation
They shall call its nobles to a kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her rulers shall be nothing.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When kinges are called vpo, there shalbe none, and all princes shalbe awaye.

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

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
As for her nobles, none shall be there to be called to the kingdom; and all her princes shall be nothing.

King James Version (1611)
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdome, but none shall bee there, and all her Princes shall bee nothing.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Her nobles shall call, and there is no kyngdome: and all her princes shalbe nothyng.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The noble men therof schulen not be there; rathere thei schulen clepe the kyng in to help, and alle the princes therof schulen be in to nouyt.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall call her nobles to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

New English Translation
Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.

New King James Version
They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

New Living Translation
It will be called the Land of Nothing, and all its nobles will soon be gone.

New Life Bible
Its rulers will be gone. And no kings will be named there. All their rulers will be no more.

New Revised Standard
They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Her nobles (but none, are, there)! unto royalty, will call, - All, all her princes, shall become nought.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.

Revised Standard Version
They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing.

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Its nobles—there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king— And all its princes will be nothing.

Contextual Overview

⁹ And the riuers thereof shall be turned into pitche, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shalbe burning pitch. ¹⁰ It shal not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall goe vp euermore: it shall be desolate from generation to generation: none shall passe through it for euer. ¹¹ But the pelicane and the hedgehog shall possesse it, and the great owle, and the rauen shall dwel in it, and he shall stretch out vpon it the line of vanitie, and the stones of emptinesse. ¹² The nobles thereof shal call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as nothing. ¹³ And it shall bring foorth thornes in the palaces thereof, nettles and thistles in the strong holdes thereof, and it shall be an habitation for dragons, and a court for ostriches. ¹⁴ There shall meete also Ziim and Iim, and the Satyre shall cry to his fellow, and the shricheowle shall rest there, and shall finde for her selfe a quiet dwelling. ¹⁵ There shall the owle make her nest, and laye, and hatche, and gather them vnder her shadowe: there shall the vultures also bee gathered, euery one with her make. ¹⁶ Seeke in the booke of the Lord, and reade: none of these shall fayle, none shall want her make: for his mouth hath commaunded, and his very Spirit hath gathered them. ¹⁷ And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath deuided it vnto them by line: they shal possesse it for euer: from generation to generation shall they dwell in it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

call: Isaiah 3:6-8, Ecclesiastes 10:16, Ecclesiastes 10:17

nothing: Isaiah 41:24, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 13:2, 2 Corinthians 12:11

Reciprocal: Judges 10:18 - What man

Cross-References

Genesis 24:53
Then the seruant tooke foorth iewels of siluer, and iewels of golde, and raiment, and gaue to Rebekah: also vnto her brother and to her mother he gaue gifts.

Genesis 29:18
And Iaakob loued Rahel, and sayde, I will serue thee seuen yeeres for Rahel thy yonger daughter.

Genesis 31:41
Thus haue I bene twentie yeere in thine house, and serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yeeres for thy sheepe, and thou hast changed my wages tenne times.

Genesis 34:16
Then will we giue our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to vs, and will dwell with you, and be one people.

Genesis 34:17
But if ye will not hearken vnto vs to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and depart.

Genesis 34:25
And on the thirde day (when they were sore) two of the sonnes of Iaakob, Simeon and Leui, Dinahs brethren tooke either of them his sworde and went into the citie boldly, and slue euery male.

Genesis 34:27
Againe the other sonnes of Iaakob came vpon the dead, and spoyled the citie, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34:28
They tooke their sheepe & their beeues, and their asses, and whatsoeuer was in the citie, and in the fieldes.

Genesis 34:29
Also they caryed away captiue & spoyled all their goods, and all their children and their wiues, and all that was in the houses.

2 Samuel 3:14
Then Dauid sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Sauls sonne, saying, Deliuer me my wife Michal, which I marryed for an hundreth foreskinnes of the Philistims.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there,.... They shall call them to take upon them the kingdom and government, and there shall be none to do it, or that will care to do it; or rather there will be no kingdom to take unto them. The words may be rendered either, "as for the nobles thereof, not there a kingdom shall they be called" p; or, "the nobles shall call"; or, "they shall call the nobles", and "there shall be no kingdom" q; the kingdom of the beast, as it is called, Revelation 16:10 shall be no more; and though the cardinals, who are like to nobles, may call for it, and expect it, or be called to it, yet to no purpose; this kingdom will not only be full of darkness, but utterly destroyed:

and all her princes shall be nothing; shall come to nothing; the above mentioned cardinals, who are clothed and live like princes, these shall be no more; the same with the merchants of the earth, which like the merchants of Tyre are princes, Revelation 18:3.

p חריה ואין שם מלוכה יקראו "nobiles ejus, et non ibi regnum vocabuntur", Forerius. q "Ingenuos ejus vocabunt, et non erit ibi regnum", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom - A more correct rendering of this would be, ‘As to the nobles, they shall call them, but there shall be there no kingdom.’ The idea is, that the kingdom would be desolate; there would be no people to rule. Or, there will be no nobles there who shall survive the destruction, and who can undertake the government of the state. The idea is taken from a government or constitution where the monarch is chosen from the ranks of the nobility. Idumea was formerly governed, as we have seen (see the Introduction to the chapter), by dukes or princes; and it is probable that when it became a monarchy it was a part of the constitution that the sovereign should be chosen from their ranks. The idea here is, that none would be left who could be called to the throne; or if any were left, they would be unwilling to undertake the government of a country where all was disorder and confusion.

And all her princes shall be nothing - Long since Idumea has ceased to be a kingdom, and there are neither nobles nor princes there, nor are there any remains of an organized and independent government.