Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her rulers shall be 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.
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.
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 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 pelican and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also, and the raven, shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of shame, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her rulers shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a home of jackals and a court for ostriches.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 10:16-17
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and your leaders eat in the morning.
Isaiah 3:6-8
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand;
Isaiah 41:11-12
Behold, all those who were angered against you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing. And those who fight with you shall perish.
Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
Jeremiah 27:20
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 39:6
Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah. Also the king of Babylon killed all the rulers of Judah.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish boasting. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, if even I am nothing.