Isaiah 34:12
Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.
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- Eccl 10:16-17 : 16 The Problem with Foolish Rulers Woe to you, O land, when your king is childish, and your princes feast in the morning! 17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time– with self-control and not in drunkenness.
- Isa 3:6-8 : 6 Indeed, a man will grab his brother right in his father’s house and say,‘You own a coat– you be our leader! This heap of ruins will be under your control.’ 7 At that time the brother will shout,‘I am no doctor, I have no food or coat in my house; don’t make me a leader of the people!’” 8 Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the LORD; they rebel against his royal authority.
- Isa 41:11-12 : 11 Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish. 12 When you will look for your opponents, you will not find them; your enemies will be reduced to absolutely nothing.
- Isa 41:24 : 24 Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.
- Jer 27:20 : 20 He has already spoken about these things that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon did not take away when he carried Jehoiakim’s son King Jeconiah of Judah and the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem away as captives from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- Jer 39:6 : 6 There at Riblah the king of Babylon had Zedekiah’s sons put to death while Zedekiah was forced to watch. The king of Babylon also had all the nobles of Judah put to death.
- 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”
- 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
- 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
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