Isaiah 18:2 meaning and explanation
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
Isaiah 18:2, Berean Standard Bible
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Isaiah pictures Cush, the region south of Egypt, sending envoys by sea in vessels of papyrus, a light craft suited to the Nile and its channels. The people are described as tall, smooth skinned, feared, of strange speech, and living in a land divided by rivers, stressing their distance and otherness.
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