8The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.


In Context

5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

Isaiah 19:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:8The 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:8The fishermen will groan and lament, all who cast hooks into the Nile; those who throw nets on the water will pine away.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:8The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish away.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:8And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:8And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net upon the waters shall languish.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:8The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:8The 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:8And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets on the waters shall languish.