Parallel Verses

Amplified


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

New American Standard Bible

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

They will name it "No Kingdom There," and all its princes will come to nothing.

A Conservative Version

They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there. And all its rulers shall be nothing.

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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Its nobles shall be called to the kingdom, and none there, and all its chiefs shall be no more.

King James 2000

They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Its nobles--but no kingdom is there--shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing.

Modern King James verseion

They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her rulers shall be nothing.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

When kings are called upon, there shall be none, and all princes shall be away.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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 its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

Youngs Literal Translation

To the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

the nobles
חור חר 
Chor 
Usage: 13

thereof to the kingdom
מלוּכה 
M@luwkah 
Usage: 24

but none shall be there, and all her princes
שׂר 
Sar 
Usage: 421

References

American

Watsons

Context Readings

Judgment On The Nations

11
But 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.
12 
Its nobles—there is no one there
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be nothing.
13
Thorns 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.



Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:16-17

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and when your [incompetent] officials and princes feast in the morning.

Isaiah 3:6-8


When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,
“You have a robe, you shall be our judge and ruler,
And this pile of ruins will be under your control,”

Isaiah 41:11-12


“Indeed, all those who are angry with you will be put to shame and humiliated;
Those who strive against you will be as nothing and will perish.

Isaiah 41:24


Hear this! You [idols] are less than nothing,
And your work is worthless;
The worshiper who chooses you [as a god] is repulsive.

Jeremiah 27:20

which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 39:6

Then at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

1 Corinthians 8:4

In this matter, then, of eating food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world [it has no real existence], and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have the gift of prophecy [and speak a new message from God to the people], and understand all mysteries, and [possess] all knowledge; and if I have all [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love [reaching out to others], I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:11

Now I have become foolish; you have forced me [by questioning my apostleship]. Actually I should have been commended by you [instead of being treated disdainfully], for I was not inferior to those super-apostles, even if I am nobody.

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