Isaiah 19:8
Douay-Rheims
The 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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
fishers--The Nile was famed for fish (Num 11:5); many would be thrown out of employment by the failure of fishes. angle--a hook. Used in the "brooks" or canals, as the "net" was in "the waters" of the river itself.
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1871 · Isaiah 19:8
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