Isaiah 19:8-10
The Message
5-10 The River Nile will dry up,
the riverbed baked dry in the sun.
The canals will become stagnant and stink,
every stream touching the Nile dry up.
River vegetation will rot away
the banks of the Nile-baked clay,
The riverbed hard and smooth,
river grasses dried up and gone with the wind.
Fishermen will complain
that the fishing’s been ruined.
Textile workers will be out of work, all weavers
and workers in linen and cotton and wool
Dispirited, depressed in their forced idleness—
everyone who works for a living, jobless.
Isaiah 19:8-10
New International Version
8 The fishermen(A) will groan and lament,
all who cast hooks(B) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
will pine away.
9 Those who work with combed flax(C) will despair,
the weavers of fine linen(D) will lose hope.
10 The workers in cloth will be dejected,
and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
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