Isaiah 18:1-2
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Lord’s Message to Cush
18 Ah! The land of buzzing insect wings[a]
beyond the rivers of Cush(A)
2 sends couriers by sea,
in reed vessels on the waters.
Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,[b]
whose land is divided by rivers.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 18:1 Or of sailing ships
- Isaiah 18:2 Hb obscure
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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