which sends envoys by sea,
in reed vessels over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,[a]
whose land is divided by rivers.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:2 Hb obscure

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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For though his[a] princes are at Zoan(A)
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

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Footnotes

  1. 30:4 Or Judah’s

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

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