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Isaiah 19:10

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.

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 counsellors 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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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
KJV
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
WEB
The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.
ASV
And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.
DARBY
And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul.
BLB
and her weavers have been crushed, and all the hired workers [are] stagnant of soul.
ÅB
Landets grunnpiller er knust; alle de som arbeider for lønn, er sorgfulle i hu.
OTB
Arbeiderne i tøy skal bli motløse, og alle de leide arbeiderne skal sørge i sjelen.
B1930
Landets grunnpiller er knust; alle de som arbeider for lønn, er sorgfulle i hu.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Exodus 8:5

    And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.

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  • Exodus 7:19

    And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.

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  • Deuteronomy 11:10

    For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

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