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,[a]
whose land is divided by rivers.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 18:2 Hb obscure

which sends envoys(A) by sea
    in papyrus(B) boats over the water.

Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,(C)
    to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive(D) nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers.(E)

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17 When the Messiah came, He proclaimed the good news(A) of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.(B)

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17 He came and preached peace(A) to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.(B)

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