Isaiah 19:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets upon the water.

Cross References

Exodus 7:21

And the fish in the Nile died; and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 47:10

Fishermen will stand beside the sea; from En-gedi to En-eglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

Habakkuk 1:15

He brings all of them up with a hook, he drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his seine; so he rejoices and exults.

Habakkuk 1:17

Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

Matthew 11:17

‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’