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.
BSB · Berean Standard Bible
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

KJV · King James Version
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!”
WEB · World English Bible
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!
ASV · American Standard Version

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