NET Bible
"Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed; those who weave will turn pale."
— Isaiah 19:9, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.
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.
Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed; those who weave will turn pale.
Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.
The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh,“I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?”
But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned for Egypt.