Teks -- Isaiah 19:8 (NET)

19:8 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.

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Wesley: Isa 19:8 - Mourn

Because they could catch no fish; which was a great loss to the people, whose common diet this was.

JFB: Isa 19:8 - fishers

The Nile was famed for fish (Num 11:5); many would be thrown out of employment by the failure of fishes.

JFB: Isa 19:8 - angle

A hook. Used in the "brooks" or canals, as the "net" was in "the waters" of the river itself.

Clarke: Isa 19:8

The fishers also "And the fishers"- There was great plenty of fish in Egypt; see Num 11:5. "The Nile,"says Diodorus, lib. i., "abounds with incredible numbers of all sorts of fish."And much more the lakes. So Egmont, Pococke, etc.

Calvin: Isa 19:8 - And the fishers shall mourn // They who spread a net on the face of the waters shall languish

8.And the fishers shall mourn Isaiah still keeps in his eye the condition of Egypt. We have formerly mentioned ³² that the prophets made use of those figures of speech by which, when any country is mentioned, they chiefly name those things which abound in that country, and for which it is celebrated. Thus, when a vinebearing country is spoken of, they mention vines; if it abound in gold, they speak of gold; and if it abound in silver, they speak of silver. Accordingly, when he speaks of Egypt, which was well watered, and contained abundance of streams, he mentions fishing.

They who spread a net on the face of the waters shall languish Some translate the word אמללו , (ă mlālū,) “they shall be cut off,” but the more correct rendering is, “they shall be weakened;” for this corresponds to the mourning and lamentation which was formerly mentioned. Now, we know that in that country there was a great number of fishers, and that these formed a great part of the wealth of Egypt. When fishers were taken away, of whom there were vast numbers among the Egyptians, and of whom their wealth chiefly consisted, they must have been weakened. Now, if the nation be deprived of that which is its ordinary food, great poverty will follow. He therefore describes an astonishing change that shall pass on the whole country.

TSK: Isa 19:8

Exo 7:21; Num 11:5; Eze 47:10; Hab 1:15

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Poole: Isa 19:8

Because they could catch few or no fish, by which trade they got their living; which also was a great plague to the people, whose common diet this was, because out of superstitious conceits they killed and eat but few living creatures, as appears both from sacred and profane writers.

Haydock: Isa 19:8 - Fishers

Fishers. The lake Mœris produced a talent every day for the revenue, and so great was the abundance of fish, that they could hardly be salted. The Nile was also well supplied with fish.

Gill: Isa 19:8 - The fishers also shall mourn // and all they that cast angle // into the brooks shall lament // and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish

The fishers also shall mourn,.... Because there will be no fish to catch, the waters of the river being dried up, and so will have none to sell, and nothing to support themselves and families with; and this must also affect the people in general, fish being the common food they lived upon, see Num 11:5, not only because of the great plenty there usually was, but because they killed and ate but very few living creatures, through a superstitious regard unto them; though Herodotus says ^h the Egyptian priests might not taste of fishes, yet the common people might; for, according to that historian ⁱ, when the river Nile flowed out of the lake of Moeris, a talent of silver every day was brought into the king's treasury, arising from the profit of fish; and when it flowed in, twenty pounds; nay, he expressly says ^k, that some of them live upon fish only, gutted, and dried with the sun:

and all they that cast angle, or hook,

into the brooks shall lament; which describes one sort of fishermen, and way of catching fishes, with the angle and hook, as the following clause describes another sort:

and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish; be dispirited and enfeebled for want of trade and subsistence, and with grief and horror.