Isaiah 34:12
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah 34:12 in other translations
| BSB | No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing. |
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| WEB | They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. |
| ASV | They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. |
| YLT | To the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end. |
| DARBY | Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | They shall call her nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. |
What does Isaiah 34:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 34:9-17
Those who aim to ruin the church, can never do that, but will ruin themselves. What dismal changes sin can make! It turns a fruitful land into barrenness, a crowded city into a wilderness. Let us compare all we discover in the book of the Lord, with the dealings of providence around us, that we may be more diligent in seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness. What the mouth of the Lord has commanded, his…
Isaiah 34:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 34:12
- Isaiah 3:6-8
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
- Ecclesiastes 10:16-17
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
- Isaiah 41:24
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
- 1 Corinthians 13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
- Isaiah 41:11-12
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
- Jeremiah 39:6
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
- Jeremiah 27:20
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
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Context
- Isaiah 34:11
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
- Isaiah 34:12
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
- Isaiah 34:13
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Isaiah 34:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Llamarán á sus príncipes, príncipes sin reino: y todos sus grandes serán nada. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ses nobles pour proclamer le royaume,… il n’y en a pas! Tous ses princes sont devenus néant. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Seine Edlen-keine sind da, welche das Königtum ausrufen; und alle seine Fürsten sind zu nichts geworden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Nobiles ejus non erunt ibi; regem potius invocabunt, et omnes principes ejus erunt in nihilum. |