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Bare places by the Nile will be dried up,
    by the edge of the Nile and all the sown land of the Nile;
    it will be driven about, and it will be no more.[a]
And the fishers will mourn,
    and all of those who cast fishhooks[b] in the Nile will lament,
    and those who spread out fishing nets[c] on the surface[d] of the water will languish.
And the workers of combed flax will be ashamed,
    and those who weave white linen.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:7 Literally “there is none of it”
  2. Isaiah 19:8 Hebrew “fishhook”
  3. Isaiah 19:8 Hebrew “net”
  4. Isaiah 19:8 Literally “face”