Isaiah 19:8
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 19 connects to 4 cross-references. The oracle against Egypt describes internal civil war, failed agriculture when the Nile fails to rise, and confusion in Egyptian wisdom. But remarkably the oracle concludes with a vision of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel as a triple blessing in the …
Other Translations
And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.
The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.
Cross References
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of …
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and …
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En–gedi even unto En–eglaim; they shall …
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their …