Isaiah 19:8 Meaning The Fishermen Will Lament

The work of drawing meaning up out of the moving mind fails when the inner waters dry. Fishers are the part that reaches into the flowing thought to catch the living idea, the flash of understanding that swims below the surface. When the Nile within a person shrinks, when the current of spirit stops feeding the lower waters, nothing rises to the hook, and the seeker who once pulled wisdom from the depths sits empty by an idle stream.

The grief here is the grief of a body cut off from its own source, no longer able to lift what nourishes it from the deep places where thought becomes vision.

Fishers: the faculty in a person that reaches down into flowing thought to draw up the living idea Brooks: the smaller channels of the mind where individual thoughts run and can be worked Nets spread upon the waters: the wide effort of the mind to gather many meanings at once from the moving surface of consciousness