Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be
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
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.
Amplified
Its nobles—there is no one there
Whom they may proclaim 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.
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
Qara'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 34:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment On The Nations
11 But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land. 12 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. 13 And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 10:16-17
Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.
Isaiah 3:6-8
When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:
Isaiah 41:11-12
Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.
Isaiah 41:24
But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.
Jeremiah 27:20
Which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, when he took Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, a prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylon, with all the great men of Judah and Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 39:6
Then the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes in Riblah: and the king of Babylon put to death all the great men of Judah.
1 Corinthians 8:4
So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.