All those will lament who cast hooks into the River,
And they will languish who spread nets on the waters.
Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel.
bHow do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise,
The son of ancient kings?”
Where are your wise men?
Let them tell you now,
And let them know what the Lord of hosts has bpurposed against Egypt.
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Isaiah 19:10
And they shall be broken, etc. "Her stores" - shathotheyha , , granaries. - Aquila.
All that make sluices and ponds for fish "All that make a gain of pools for fish" - This obscure line is rendered by different interpreters in very different manners. Kimchi explains agmey as if it were the same with agemah , from Job 30:25, in which he is followed by some of the rabbins, and supported by the Septuagint: and secher , which I translate gain, and which some take for nets or enclosures, the Septuagint render by , strong drink or beer, which it is well known was much used in Egypt; and so likewise the Syriac, retaining the Hebrew word sekra . I submit these very different interpretations to the reader' s judgment. The Version of the Septuagint is as follows:
̔ , · "And all they that make barley wine shall mourn, and be grieved in soul."
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