Isaiah 19:10 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 19:10

The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire shall be grieved in soul.

KJV

And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

⋯

Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And they shall be broken, etc. “Her stores” - שתתיה shathotheyha, αποθηκαι, 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.

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָי֥וּ	ve.ha.Yu	and they will be	H1961 →
שָׁתֹתֶ֖יהָ	sha.to.Tei.ha	foundations its	H8356 →
מְדֻכָּאִ֑ים	me.du.ka.'Im	crushed	H1792 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
עֹ֥שֵׂי	'O.sei	[those who] work of	H6213 →
שֶׂ֖כֶר	Se.kher	wage[s]	H7938 →
אַגְמֵי־	'ag.mei-	[will be] grieved of	H99 →
נָֽפֶשׁ׃	Na.fesh	soul	H5315 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H1792medukaimcrushed18×

The walk

The walk7

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 7:19
And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There…
leads to
- Exodus 14:21
  Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were…
- Exodus 8:16
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”
- Exodus 10:21
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
- Exodus 10:12
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has…
- Exodus 8:5–6
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
Through
Exodus 8:5
And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
leads to
- Exodus 7:19
  And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There…
Through
Deuteronomy 11:10
For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
leads to
- Zechariah 14:18
  And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who…

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Isaiah: the study guide →Read chapter 19 →The featured study →

Continue: Isaiah 19 →

01Commentary

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Isaiah

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Isaiah