Isaías 19:8

8 Los pescadores también se entristecerán; y harán duelo todos los que echan anzuelo en el río; y desfallecerán los que extienden red sobre las aguas

Isaías 19:8 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 19:8

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 ( Numbers 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 ^F8 the Egyptian priests might not taste of fishes, yet the common people might; for, according to that historian ^F9, 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 ^F11, 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 37.
F9 Ibid. c. 149.
F11 Ibid. c. 92.

Isaías 19:8 In-Context

6 Y se alejarán los ríos; se agotarán y secarán las corrientes de los fosos; la caña y el carrizo serán destruidos

7 Las verduras de junto al río, de junto a la ribera del río, y toda sementera del río, se secarán, se perderán, y no serán

8 Los pescadores también se entristecerán; y harán duelo todos los que echan anzuelo en el río; y desfallecerán los que extienden red sobre las aguas

9 Los que labran lino fino, y los que tejen redes, serán avergonzados

10 Porque todas sus redes serán rotas; y se entristecerán todos los que hacen estanques para criar peces