which sends envoys by sea,
in reed vessels over the water.
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. 18:2 Hb obscure

Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”

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For though his[a] princes are at Zoan(A)
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

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Footnotes

  1. 30:4 Or Judah’s

For his princes were at (A)Zoan,
And his ambassadors came to Hanes.

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