Isaiah 34:12

Amplified Bible

Its nobles—there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king— And all its princes will be 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.

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

⁹The streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch, And its dust into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch. ¹⁰The burning will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will lie in ruins; No one will ever again pass through it. ¹¹But the pelican and the porcupine will take possession of it; The owl and the raven will dwell in it. And He will stretch over it (Edom) the measuring line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness. ¹²Its nobles—there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king— And all its princes will be nothing.¹³Thorns will come up in its fortified palaces, Nettles and brambles in its fortified cities; It will be a haunt for jackals, An abode for ostriches. ¹⁴The creatures of the desert will encounter jackals And the hairy goat will call to its kind; Indeed, Lilith (night demon) will settle there And find herself a place of rest. ¹⁵There the arrow snake will make her nest and lay her eggs, And hatch them and gather her young under her protection; Indeed, the birds of prey will be gathered there [to breed], Every one with its own kind. ¹⁶Seek from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these [creatures] will be missing; None will lack its mate. For His mouth has commanded, And His Spirit has gathered them. ¹⁷The LORD has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided and apportioned Edom to the wild beasts by measuring-line. They will possess it forever; From generation to generation they will 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 servant brought out jewelry of silver, jewelry of gold, and articles of clothing, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, "I will serve you [as a hired workman] for seven years [in return] for [the privilege of marrying] Rachel your younger daughter."

Genesis 31:41
"These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for [my share of] your flocks, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:16
then we will give our daughters to you [in marriage], and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.

Genesis 34:17
"But if you do not listen to us and refuse to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter [Dinah] and go."

Genesis 34:25
Now on the third day [after the circumcision], when all the men were [terribly] sore and in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's [full] brothers, took their swords, boldly entered the city [without anyone suspecting them of evil intent], and they killed every male.

Genesis 34:27
Then Jacob's [other] sons came upon those who were killed and looted the town, because their sister had been defiled and disgraced.

Genesis 34:28
They took the Canaanites' flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field;

Genesis 34:29
they looted all their wealth, and [took captive] all their children and their wives, even everything that was in the houses.

2 Samuel 3:14
So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was betrothed for [the price of] a 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.