Isaiah 34:12

Her nobles 1 will have nothing left to call a kingdom, and all her princes will be nothing. 1

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In The King James Version

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

In Context

11But wild birds and animals will live there; the owl and the raven will make their nest in it. 1 He will stretch over it the measuring line of ruin and the plumbline of destruction. 1

13Thorns will overgrow her palaces, nettles and thistles her fortresses. 1 It will be a habitation of jackals, a place for ostriches. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:6A man will even take hold of his brother in his father's house 1 and say, 'You have a coat; be our ruler, and let this ruin be in your hands.' 1

Isaiah 41:24See, you idols are nothing and your deeds are nothing; the one who chooses you is detestable. 1

Jeremiah 39:6The king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons before his own eyes at Riblah. He also slaughtered all the noblemen of Judah.

1 Corinthians 13:2Suppose that I have the gift of prophecy and understand all hidden truths and knowledge, and that I have all faith so as to remove mountains. But if I do not have love, I am nothing.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 34:10-17

Threatenings against God's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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