Isaiah 34:12
Good News Translation
There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing.

Contemporary English Version
Edom will be called "Kingdom of Nothing." Its rulers will also be nothing.

New American Bible
Its nobles shall be no more, nor shall kings be proclaimed there; all its princes are gone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.

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Isaiah 3:6-8 For a man shall take hold of his brother, one of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand. . . .

Ecclesiastes 10:16,17 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning. . . .

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Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

1 Corinthians 8:4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

Context
God's Judgments on the Nations
11The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation. 12The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.13And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.…
Cross References
Isaiah 40:23
He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 41:11
Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.

Isaiah 41:12
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee.

Jeremiah 27:20
Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 39:6
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias, in Reblatha, before his eyes: and the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Juda.

Isaiah 34:11
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