Isaiæ 16:16

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Ecce ego mittam piscatores multos, dicit Dominus,
et piscabuntur eos:
et post hæc mittam eis multos venatores,
et venabuntur eos de omni monte,
et de omni colle, et de cavernis petrarum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ecce ego mittam piscatores multos, dicit Dominus, et piscabuntur eos : et post h�c mittam eis multos venatores, et venabuntur eos de omni monte, et de omni colle, et de cavernis petrarum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ecce ego mittam piscatores multos, dicit Dominus, et piscabuntur eos; et post haec mittam eis multos venatores, et venabuntur eos de omni monte et de omni colle et de cavernis petrarum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will send: I will raise up enemies against them, some of whom shall destroy them by wiles, and others shall ruin them by violence. The Chaldeans shall make an entire conquest of the whole land, and strip it of its riches and inhabitants; and those who may escape one party shall fall into the hands of another. Jeremiah 25:9, Amos 4:2, Habakkuk 1:14, Habakkuk 1:15

hunters: Genesis 10:9, 1 Samuel 24:11, 1 Samuel 26:20, Micah 7:2

every mountain: Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Amos 5:19, Amos 9:1-3, Luke 17:34-37, Revelation 6:15-17

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 15:37 - to send Isaiah 2:19 - And they Isaiah 7:19 - in the holes Jeremiah 6:9 - They shall Jeremiah 7:11 - even Jeremiah 48:44 - that fleeth Lamentations 1:3 - all Lamentations 4:18 - hunt Ezekiel 32:3 - General Ezekiel 33:28 - I will lay Hosea 7:12 - I will spread Hosea 10:10 - and the Amos 9:3 - hid Micah 7:17 - move Zephaniah 1:12 - that I Zechariah 8:10 - neither Matthew 24:28 - General Revelation 6:8 - kill

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them,.... Which some understand of the Egyptians, who lived much on fish, and were much employed in catching them, to which the allusion is thought to be; but rather the Chaldeans are intended, whom God, by the secret instinct of his providence, brought up against the Jews; who besieged Jerusalem, and enclosed them in it, and took them as fishes in a net; see Habakkuk 1:14, though some interpret this, and what follows, of the deliverance of the Jews by the Medes and Persians under Cyrus, who searched for them in all places, and sent them into their own land; or of Zerubbabel, and others with him, who used all means to persuade the Jews in the captivity to go with them, and build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and there are not wanting others, who by the "fishers" think the apostles are meant; who were fishers by occupation, and whom Christ made fishers of men, and sent forth to cast and spread the net of the Gospel in the several parts of Judea, for the conversion of some of that people; see Matthew 4:18:

and after will l send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks; either the same persons, the Chaldeans, are meant here, as before; who, as they should slay those they took in Jerusalem with the edge of the sword, as fishes taken in a net are killed, or presently die, which is the sense of the Targum, and other Jewish commentators; so those that escaped and fled to mountains, hills, and holes of the rocks, to hide themselves, should be pursued by them, and be found out, taken, and carried captive: or, the Romans e. So Nimrod, the beginning of whose kingdom was Babel, being a tyrant and an oppressor, is called a mighty hunter, Genesis 10:8.

e Vid. Joseph de Bello Jud. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The scattering of the people is to be like that of hunted animals, of which but few escape, the ancient method of hunting being to enclose a large space with beaters and nets, and so drive everything within it to some place where it was destroyed. The destruction of the whole male population was one of the horrible customs of ancient warfare, and the process is called in Herodotus “sweeping the country with a drag-net.” The same authority tells us that this method could only be effectually carried out on an island. Literally, understood, the fishers are the main armies who, in the towns and fortresses, capture the people in crowds as in a net, while the hunters are the light-armed troops, who pursue the fugitives over the whole country, and drive them out of their hiding places as hunters track out their game.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 16:16. I will send for many fishers - for many hunters — I shall raise up enemies against them some of whom shall destroy them by wiles, and others shall ruin them by violence. This seems to be the meaning of these symbolical fishers and hunters.