Isaiah 18:2
He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
1Woe to you, ye wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.
Cross References
Genesis 10:8And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a giant upon the earth.
2 Chronicles 12:2And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had sinned against the Lord,
2 Chronicles 16:8Were not the Ethiopians and Libyans a great force, in courage, in horsemen, in great numbers? and did not He deliver them into thy hands, because thou trustedst in the Lord?
Isaiah 19:5And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.
Ezekiel 30:9In that day shall messengers go forth hastening to destroy Ethiopia utterly, and there shall be tumult among them in the day of Egypt: for, behold, it comes.
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 →