Isaiah 18:2
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Note scattered…: or, outspread and polished
Note meted…: or, that meteth out and treadeth down: Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot
Note have…: or, despise
that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- sendeth
- Isaiah 30:2–4; Ezekiel 30:9
- to a nation
- Isaiah 18:7
- to a people
- Genesis 10:8, 9; 2 Chronicles 12:2–4; 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 16:8
- have spoiled
- or, despise.
- Isaiah 19:5–7