Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and every sown field by the Nile, shall dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

8 And the fishers shall sigh, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the face of the waters shall languish.

9 And they that work combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be ashamed.

[*](6. ‘canals’: lit. Niles (Nile-arms): Mazor, a rare singular form of Mizraim, Egypt: the word prob. meaning ‘fortification.’)
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10 And her pillars shall be broken in pieces ; all that work for hire (shall be) grieved in soul.

11 Merely fools are the princes of Zoanf as for the wise counsellors of Pharaoh, counsel is become brutish; how can ye say unto Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?

12 Where, then, are thy wise men? (and) let them declare now unto thee, and let them know, what the Lord of Hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.