Isaiah 34:12
What does Isaiah 34:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 34:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862<FI> To<Fi> the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.
Context
v.11But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
v.12This passage
v.13And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
- 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.
- Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
- Isaiah 41:24
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
- Isaiah 3:6
When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;
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