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Isaiah 19:8–9

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19:8The fishermen will mourn and lament,

all those who cast a fishhook into the river,

and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve.13

19:9Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed;

those who weave will turn pale.14

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Footnotes

  1. 13 Or perhaps, “will disappear”; cf. “will be useless.”
  2. 14 301 חוֹרִי suggests the meaning “white stuff” for חוֹרִי (khori); the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa has חָוֵרוּ (khaveru), probably a Qal perfect, third plural form of חוּר, (khur, “be white, pale”). See I חור. The latter reading is assumed in the translation above.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

The fishermen will mourn and lament,

all who cast a hook in the Nile;

and they will languish

who spread nets on the water.

The workers in combed flax will be in despair,

and the weavers of white cotton.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The fishermen will groan and lament,

all who cast hooks into the Nile;

those who throw nets on the water

will pine away.

Those who work with combed flax will despair,

the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Then the fishermen will mourn.

All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament,

and those who spread nets on the water will give up.

Those who work with flax will be dismayed;

those combing it and weaving linen will turn pale.

NLTNew Living Translation

The fishermen will lament for lack of work.

Those who cast hooks into the Nile will groan,

and those who use nets will lose heart.

There will be no flax for the harvesters,

no thread for the weavers.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the fishers will mourn,

and all of those who cast fishhooks in the Nile will lament,

and those who spread out fishing nets on the surface of the water will languish.

And the workers of combed flax will be ashamed,

and those who weave white linen.

KJV 1900King 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.

Moreover they that work in fine flax,

And they that weave networks, shall be confounded.