Isaiah 18:2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
1Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
Cross References
Genesis 10:8And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
2 Chronicles 12:2And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had dealt treacherously with the LORD,
2 Chronicles 16:8Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, He delivered them into thy hand.
Isaiah 19:5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be drained dry,
Ezekiel 30:9In that day shall messengers go forth from before Me in ships to make the confident Ethiopians afraid; and there shall come convulsion upon them in the day of Egypt; for, lo, it cometh.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 18:2-7
Judgments Denounced. ( b. c. 712.) 1 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! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when… Read the whole commentary →