Isaiah 18:1-2
Contemporary English Version
Ethiopia Will Be Punished
18 (A) Downstream from Ethiopia[a]
lies the country of Egypt,
swarming with insects.[b]
2 Egypt sends messengers
up the Nile River
on ships made of reeds.[c]
Send them fast to Ethiopia,
whose people are tall
and have smooth skin.
Their land is divided by rivers;
they are strong and brutal,
feared all over the world.[d]
Isaiah 18:1-2
King James Version
18 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 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!
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