KJV King James Version
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
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Isaiah 19:9
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.
WEB World English Bible
Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.
ASV American Standard Version
Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And ashamed have been makers of fine flax, And weavers of net-works.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 19
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?
12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
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Ezekiel 27:7Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.Proverbs 7:16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt.1 Kings 10:28And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
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