Teks -- Isaiah 34:12 (NET)

34:12 Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.

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Wesley: Isa 34:12 - None

They shall not find any willing to undertake the government.

Wesley: Isa 34:12 - Nothing

Shall have no courage or strength left in them.

JFB: Isa 34:12

Rather, "As to her nobles, there shall be none there who shall declare a kingdom," that is, a king [MAURER]; or else, "There shall be no one there whom they shall call to the kingdom" [ROSENMULLER] (Isa 3:6, &c.). Idumea was at first governed by dukes (Gen 36:15); out of them the king wan chosen when the constitution became a monarchy.

Calvin: Isa 34:12 - They shall call her nobles without a kingdom // And all her princes shall be nothing

12.They shall call her nobles without a kingdom This passage has received various interpretations, which I do not quote, because it would be tedious to refute them. One of the most probable is, “They shall call his nobles to reign, but in vain.” As if he had said, “In their wretched condition none will be found willing to rule over them, and to undertake the charge of the commonwealth.” A statement of the same kind is found elsewhere, and we have formerly (Isa 3:6) seen one that is almost alike; but the words do not correspond. When the Prophet speaks thus, “They shall call her nobles, and they shall not be there,” he employs, I doubt not, witty raillery to censure the pride of that nation which had been cherished by longcontinued peace and abundance. When the Edomites, therefore, out of their mountains breathed lofty pride, the Prophet declares that they shall be disgracefully cast down, so that they shall have no nobility and no government; just as, when a kingdom has been overturned, government is taken away, so that the general mass of the people resembles a maimed or disfigured body, and there is no distinction of ranks. To those stately nobles who vaunted themselves so much, he says in mockery, that they shall be princes without subjects.

And all her princes shall be nothing The meaning of the former clause is still more evident from this second clause, in which he adds for the sake of explanation, that her princes “shall be reduced to nothing.’ It amounts to this, that the land of Edom shall resemble a mutilated body, so that nothing shall be seen in it but shocking confusion. This is the utmost curse of God; because, if men have no political government, they will hardly differ at all from beasts. Indeed, their condition will be far worse, for beasts can dispense with a governor, because they do not make war against their own kind; but nothing call be more cruel than man, if he be not held by some restraint, for every one will be driven by the furious eagerness of his own passions to every kind of vicious indulgence.

TSK: Isa 34:12 - call // nothing

call : Isa 3:6-8; Ecc 10:16, Ecc 10:17

nothing : Isa 41:24; 1Co 8:4, 1Co 13:2; 2Co 12:11

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Poole: Isa 34:12 - They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there // Shall be nothing

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there they shall endeavour to heal their breaches, but in vain; the remnant of the people shall seek for any fit person, and offer the kingdom to him; but they shall not find any such who shall be willing to undertake the government.

Shall be nothing either shall be lost and cut off, or shall have no courage or strength left in them.

Gill: Isa 34:12 - 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,.... They shall call them to take upon them the kingdom and government, and there shall be none to do it, or that will care to do it; or rather there will be no kingdom to take unto them. The words may be rendered either, "as for the nobles thereof, not there a kingdom shall they be called" ^p; or, "the nobles shall call"; or, "they shall call the nobles", and "there shall be no kingdom" ^q; the kingdom of the beast, as it is called, Rev 16:10 shall be no more; and though the cardinals, who are like to nobles, may call for it, and expect it, or be called to it, yet to no purpose; this kingdom will not only be full of darkness, but utterly destroyed:

and all her princes shall be nothing; shall come to nothing; the above mentioned cardinals, who are clothed and live like princes, these shall be no more; the same with the merchants of the earth, which like the merchants of Tyre are princes, Rev 18:3.