Isaiah 18:2
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Which sends envoys by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide. (NASB ©1995)

Genesis 10:8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.

Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."

Exodus 2:3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

2 Chronicles 12:2 And it came about in King Rehoboam's fifth year, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 14:9 Now Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

2 Chronicles 16:8 "Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim an immense army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

Isaiah 18:7 At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the LORD of hosts From a people tall and smooth, Even from a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide-- To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, even Mount Zion. (NASB ©1995)


Ambassadors Awesome Beginning Bulrushes Divide Embassadors Go Hitherto Laid Measured Measures Messengers Meted Nation Onward Papyrus Peeled Rivers Scattered Sea Sends Smooth Spoiled Swift Tall Terrible Treads Trodden Vessels Waters

Aggressive Ambassadors Awesome Beginning Boats Bulrushes Causing Conquering Continued Crushing Cut Divide Divided Drawn Embassadors Envoys Existence Face Fear Feared Fearful Floods Glossy Haters History Hitherto Implements Laid Line Measured Measures Meeting Messengers Meted Meteth Mighty Nation Nile O Onward Onwards Oppressive Papyrus Peeled Powerful Quickly Ravaged Reed Representatives Rivers Saying Scattered Sendest Sending Sends Ships Skin Smooth Smooth-skinned Speech Spoiled Strange Strong Sturdy Surface Swift Tall Terrible Thenceforth Treadeth Treading Treads Trodden Vessels Waiting Waste Waters

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

sendeth Isa 30:2-4 Eze 30:9

vessels. It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile a light sort of ships or boats made of the papyrus. See note on Ex. 2:3

to a notion Isa 18:7

scattered and peeled. or, outspread and polished. Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, 'stretched out in length and smoothed.' Egypt, which is situated between 24 degrees and 32 degrees north lat. and 30 degrees and 33 degrees E. long., being bounded on the south by Ethiopia, on the north by the Mediterranean, on the east by the mountains of Arabia, and on the west by those of Lybia, is one long vale, 750 miles in length, (through the middle of which runs the Nile,) in breadth from one to two or three day's journey, and even at the widest part of the Delta, from Pelusium to Alexandria, not above 250 miles broad.

to a people Ge 10:8,9 2Ch 12:2-4 14:9 16:8

Heb. Meted out and trodden down. or, that meteth out and treadeth down. Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot. This is an allusion to the frequent necessity of having recourse to mensuration in Egypt, in order to determine their boundaries, after the inundation of the Nile had smoothed their land and effaced their landmarks; and to their method of throwing seed upon the mud, when the waters had subsided, and treading it in by turning their cattle into the fields.

have spoiled. or, despise Isa 19:5-7

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