KJV 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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 19
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no [more].
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.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices [and] ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְאָנוּ֙H578 · a.nahto lamentהַדַּיָּגִ֔יםH1771 · day.yagfisherוְאָ֣בְל֔וּH56 · a.valto mournכָּל־H3605 · kolallמַשְׁלִיכֵ֥יH7993 · sha.lakhto throwבַיְא֖וֹרH2975 · ye.orNileחַכָּ֑הH2443 · chak.kahhookוּפֹרְשֵׂ֥יH6566 · pa.ra.sto spreadמִכְמֹ֛רֶתH4365 · mikh.me.retnetעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵי־H6440 · pa.nehface: beforeמַ֖יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterאֻמְלָֽלוּ׃H535 · a.malto weaken
Cross-references
Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.Ezekiel 47:10And it shall come to pass, [that] the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a [place] to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.Numbers 11:5We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:Exodus 7:21And the fish that [was] in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
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