Which sends messengers by the sea,
Even in (A)papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation [a](B)tall and smooth,
To a people (C)feared [b]far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 18:2 Lit drawn out
  2. Isaiah 18:2 Lit from it and beyond

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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For (A)their officials are at Zoan
And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

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Though they have officials in Zoan(A)
    and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

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