Isaiah 34:12

Literal Standard Version

They call her nobles [to] the kingdom, || But there are none there, || And all her princes are at an end.

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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The nobles thereof shal call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as 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

⁹And her streams have been turned to pitch, || And her dust to brimstone, || And her land has become burning pitch. ¹⁰She is not quenched by night and by day, || Her smoke goes up for all time, || She is desolate from generation to generation, || Forever and ever, none is passing into her. ¹¹And pelican and hedgehog possess her, || And owl and raven dwell in her, || And He has stretched out over her || A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness. ¹²They call her nobles [to] the kingdom, || But there are none there, || And all her princes are at an end.¹³And thorns have gone up her palaces, || Nettle and bramble [are] in her fortresses, || And it has been a habitation of dragons, || A court for daughters of an ostrich. ¹⁴And desert-dwellers have met with howlers, || And the goat calls for its companion, || Surely the night-owl has rested there, || And has found a place of rest for herself. ¹⁵The owl has made her nest there, || Indeed, she lays, and has hatched, || And has gathered under her shadow, || Surely vultures have been gathered there, || Each with its companion. ¹⁶Seek out of the scroll of YHWH, and read, || One of these has not been lacking, || None has missed its companion, || For My mouth—it has commanded, || And His Spirit—He has gathered them. ¹⁷And He has cast a lot for them, || And His hand has apportioned [it] to them by line, || They possess it for all time, || They dwell in it from generation to generation!

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
and the servant takes out vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and gives to Rebekah; precious things also he has given to her brother and to her mother.

Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loves Rachel and says, "I serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter":

Genesis 31:41
This [is] to me twenty years in your house: I have served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock; and you change my hire ten times;

Genesis 34:16
then we have given our daughters to you, and we take your daughters for ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

Genesis 34:17
and if you do not listen to us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone."

Genesis 34:25
And it comes to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male;

Genesis 34:27
Jacob's sons have come in on the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister;

Genesis 34:28
their flock and their herd, and their donkeys, and that which [is] in the city, and that which [is] in the field, have they taken;

Genesis 34:29
and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that [is] in the house.

2 Samuel 3:14
And David sends messengers to Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, saying, "Give up my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself with one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

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.