Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Bible References

General references

Exodus 7:21
And the fish that [were] in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and [the] Egyptians were not able to drink water from the Nile, and the blood was in all the land of Egypt.
Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic.
Ezekiel 47:10
And then fishers from En Gedi and [on] up to En Eglaim will stand beside it, a sea-girt drying yard for nets; their fish for the dragnets will be {of every kind}, like the fish of the great sea, [and] very many.
Habakkuk 1:15
He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults.