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Isaiah 34:12

Judgment

10 It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.

13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

14 The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.
KJV
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
WEB
They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
ASV
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
DARBY
Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.
BLB
And nothing [is] there for her nobles to call a kingdom, and all her princes will be nothing.
ÅB
Det er ingen fornemme der, som kan utrope noen til konge, og med alle dets fyrster er det forbi.
OTB
Dets adelige skal ikke ha noe der som kan kalles et kongerike, og alle dets fyrster skal forsvinne.
B1930
Det er ingen fornemme der, som kan utrope nogen til konge, og med alle dets fyrster er det forbi.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 3:6–8

    A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

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  • Ecclesiastes 10:16–17

    Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

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  • Isaiah 41:24

    Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

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  • 2 Corinthians 12:11

    I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

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  • 1 Corinthians 8:4

    So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

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  • 1 Corinthians 13:2

    If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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  • Isaiah 41:11–12

    Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.

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  • Jeremiah 39:6

    There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

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