Isa 19:8-9 | NETfull | STEP | 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.

Isaiah 19:8-9

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. ^{▼▼ Or perhaps, “will disappear”; cf. TEV “will be useless.”}
9 Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed;
those who weave will turn pale. ^{▼▼ BDB 301 s.v. חוֹרִי suggests the meaning “white stuff” for חוֹרִי (khori); the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has חָוֵרוּ (khaveru), probably a Qal perfect, third plural form of חוּר, (khur, “be white, pale”). See HALOT 299 s.v. I חור. The latter reading is assumed in the translation above.}