Isaiah 34:12

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

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

Parallel Translations

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

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.

The Holy Bible, Berean Study 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.

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.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
The nobles thereof shal call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as nothing.

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.

English Standard Version
Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom, and all its princes shall be 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

New International Version
Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.

New King James Version
They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, But none shall be there, and all its 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.

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.

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

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

Christian Standard Bible®
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to 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.

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

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.

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

New International Version (1984)
Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.

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

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

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 Then shall the torrents thereof be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof, into brimstone, - So shall her land become burning pitch: ¹⁰ Neither night nor day, shall it be quenched, To times age-abiding, shall ascend the smoke thereof, - From generation to generation, shall it be waste, Never, never, shall any pass through it: ¹¹ That the vomiting pelican and the bittern may possess it: And the great owl and the raven, dwell therein; Then will he stretch out over it The line of desolation, and The plummet of emptiness. ¹² Her nobles (but none, are, there)! unto royalty, will call, - All, all her princes, shall become nought. ¹³ Then shall come up, in her palaces thorns Nettles and thistles in her fortresses, - And she shall become A home for wild dogs, An enclosure for ostriches; ¹⁴ Then shall criers meet with howlers, And, the shaggy creature, unto his fellow, shall call, - Only, there, shall, the night-spectre, Make her settlement, And find for herself a place of rest: ¹⁵ There, shall, the arrow-snake, Make her nest and lay, And hatch and gather under her shadow, - Only, there, shall be gathered the falcons, every one with her mate. ¹⁶ Seek ye out of the scroll of Yahweh, and read, Not, one from among them, is lacking, None, hath missed, her mate, - For, a mouth, hath, itself commanded, And, his spirit, hath itself gathered them: ¹⁷ Yea he himself, hath cast for them a lot, And his own hand, hath given to them a portion by line, - Unto times age-abiding, shall they possess it, To generation after generation, shall they dwell therein.

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 servant brought forth jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment, and gave unto Rebekah, - and precious things, gave he to her brother and to her mother.

Genesis 29:18
So Jacob loved Rachel, - and he said, I will serve thee seven years, for Rachel thy younger daughter.

Genesis 31:41
This, hath been my lot twenty years in thy house, - I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, And six years for thy sheep - And thou didst change my wages ten times: -

Genesis 34:16
then will we give our daughters to you, and your daughters, will we take to us, - and we will dwell with you, and become one people.

Genesis 34:17
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and be gone.

Genesis 34:25
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and came in upon the city, boldly, - and slew every, male;

Genesis 34:27
The sons of Jacob, came in upon the slain and plundered the city, - because they had defiled their sister:

Genesis 34:28
their flocks, and their herds and their asses, - and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, they took;

Genesis 34:29
and all their wealth and all their little ones, and their women, took they captive, and seized as plunder, - even all that was in their houses.

2 Samuel 3:14
And David sent messengers unto Ish-bosheth son of Saul, saying, - Give up my wife, Michal, whom I espoused to myself, for a hundred foreskins of 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.