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Isaiah 34:12

Isaiah 34:12

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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" ; or, "the nobles shall call"; or, "they shall call the nobles", and "there shall be no kingdom" ; the kingdom of the beast, as it is called, Re 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, Re 18:3.

warqy hkwlm Mv Nyaw hyrx "nobiles ejus, et non ibi regnum vocabuntur", Forerius.

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