29 From there it searches for prey;(A)
its eyes penetrate the distance.

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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

Their horses are swifter(A) than leopards(B)
and more fierce[a] than wolves of the night.
Their horsemen charge ahead;
their horsemen come from distant lands.
They fly like an eagle, swooping to devour.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:8 Or and quicker

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