Catholic Public Domain Version
"Its nobles will not be in that place. Instead, they will call upon the king, and all its leaders will be as nothing. "
— Isaiah 34:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.”
“They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. ”
“They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.”
“Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.”
“The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.”
“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.”
“They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.”
And its torrents will be turned into tar, and its soil into sulfur. And its land will become burning tar.
Night and day, it will not be extinguished; its smoke will rise up without ceasing. From generation to generation it will remain desolate. No one will pass through it, forever and ever.
The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it. And the ibis and the raven will live in it. And a measuring line will be extended over it, so that it may be reduced to nothing, and a plumb line, unto desolation.
Its nobles will not be in that place. Instead, they will call upon the king, and all its leaders will be as nothing.
And thorns and nettles will rise up in its houses, and the thistle in its fortified places. And it will be the lair of serpents and the pasture of ostriches.
And demons and monsters will meet, and the hairy ones will cry out to one another. There, the ogress has lain down and found rest for herself.
In that place, the hedgehog has kept its den, and has raised its young, and has dug around them, and has kept them warm in its shadow. In that place, the birds of prey have joined together, one to another.