Isaiah 19:8 “Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will…”

Isaiah 19:8

Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The fishers also shall mourne, and all they that cast angle into the riuer, shall lament, and they that spread their nette vpon the waters, shall be weakened.

Darby Translation

And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net upon the waters shall languish.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“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.”

Ezekiel 47:10 Habakkuk 1:15 Numbers 11:5 Exodus 7:21

Ezekiel 47:10 · BSB

Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

Habakkuk 1:15 · BSB

The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

Numbers 11:5 · BSB

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Exodus 7:21 · BSB

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.

9The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.

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