American Standard Version
"And the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire shall be grieved in soul. "
— Isaiah 19:10, American Standard Version
“And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.”
“The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.”
“Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.”
“And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn that made pools to take fishes.”
“And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.”
“And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.”
The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded.
And the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire shall be grieved in soul.
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.