Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
They will name it "No Kingdom There," and all its princes will come to nothing.
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.
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.
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
Qara'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 34:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment On The Nations
11 "But hawks and hedgehogs will possess it; owls and ravens will nest in it. God will stretch out over it a measuring line, and chaos, and plumb lines of emptiness, and its nobles. 12 They will name it "No Kingdom There," and all its princes will come to nothing. 13 Thorns will grow over its palaces, nettles and brambles its fortresses. It will become a haunt for jackals, a home for ostriches.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 10:16-17
Woe to the land whose king is a youth and whose princes feast in the morning.
Isaiah 3:6-8
"For a man will grab his brother in his own father's house, and say, "You have a cloak, so you be our leader, and this heap of ruins will be under your rule!'
Isaiah 41:11-12
"Look! All who are enraged at you will be put to shame and disgraced; those who contend with you will all die.
Isaiah 41:24
"Look! You and your work are less than nothing; whoever finds you pleasing is disgusting."
Jeremiah 27:20
that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take when he took Jehoiakim's son Jeconiah, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem from Jerusalem into exile to Babylon
Jeremiah 39:6
At Riblah, the king of Babylon executed Zedekiah's sons right before his eyes. He also executed all the nobles of Judah.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God.
1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.