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Isaiah 19:9
Isaiah 19:9 is verse 9 of Isaiah chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.
King James Version
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
World English Bible
Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.
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Isaiah 19:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
11 The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 10:28Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
Proverbs 7:16I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
Ezekiel 27:7Of embroidered fine linen from Egypt they made your sail, which served as your banner. Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah they made your awning.