Isaiah 19:8

New English Translation

The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve.

Cross References

Exodus 7:21

When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

Ezekiel 47:10

Fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to En-eglaim they will spread nets. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Great Sea.

Habakkuk 1:15

The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.

Habakkuk 1:17

Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Matthew 11:17

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’