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Isaiah 19:8

Isaiah 19:8 is verse 8 of Isaiah chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

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.

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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.

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Isaiah 19:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

7 The 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.

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.

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

10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.

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Hebrew words

וְאָנוּ֙and they will lament הַדַּיָּגִ֔יםthe fishermen וְאָ֣בְל֔וּand they will mourn כָּלall מַשְׁלִיכֵ֥י[those who] cast בַיְא֖וֹרin the River חַכָּ֑הa fish hook וּפֹרְשֵׂ֥יand [those who] spread out מִכְמֹ֛רֶת<of> a fishing net עַלon פְּנֵי[the] surface of מַ֖יִם[the] waters אֻמְלָֽלוּthey will languish

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 7:21
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.

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Ezekiel 47:10
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
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.

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