Parallel Verses
King James Version
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
New American Standard Bible
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be
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 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 cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 10:16-17
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Isaiah 3:6-8
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
Isaiah 41:11-12
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
Isaiah 41:24
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Jeremiah 27:20
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive 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 slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.