Catholic Public Domain Version
"Those who work with linen, combing and weaving fine textiles, will be confounded. "
— Isaiah 19:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.”
“Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded. ”
“Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.”
“Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed; those who weave will turn pale.”
“They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and weaving fine linen.”
“And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.”
“Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.”
And the rivers will fail. The streams of its banks will diminish and dry up. The reed and the bulrush will wither away.
The channel of the river will be stripped down to its source, and everything irrigated by it will dry up and wither and be no more.
And the fishermen will grieve. And all who cast a hook into the river will mourn. And those who cast a net upon the surface of its waters will languish.
Those who work with linen, combing and weaving fine textiles, will be confounded.
And its irrigated places will begin to fail, with all those who make pools to take fish.
The leaders of Tanis are foolish. The wise counselors of Pharaoh have given foolish counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh: “I am the son of wise men, the son of the kings of antiquity?”
Where are your wise men now? Let them announce it to you, and let them reveal what the Lord of hosts intends for Egypt.