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They send ambassadors by sea, in papyrus boats on the water.

Go, you swift messengers,
to a tall people with smooth, dark skin,[a]
to a nation feared far and near,
a nation powerful and conquering,[b]
from a land divided by rivers!

All you inhabitants of the world,
and you who dwell on the earth,
look for a signal flag raised on the mountains!
Listen for the blast of the ram’s horn!
For the Lord has said to me,
“I will look on quietly from my dwelling place,
like the shimmering heat of the sun,
like the rising mist at harvest time.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 18:2 Literally polished skin
  2. Isaiah 18:2 Or a powerful nation with a strange language. The last two lines of the verse are difficult.