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Take a message back to your land divided by rivers, to your strong and powerful nation, to your tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/isaiah/18-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/isaiah/18-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/18-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/18.htm">Chapter 18</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/18-1.htm" title="Isaiah 18:1">◄</a> Isaiah 18:2 <a href="../isaiah/18-3.htm" title="Isaiah 18:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/isaiah/18.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/isaiah/18.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />From that land ambassadors come down the Nile in boats made of reeds. Go back home, swift messengers! Take a message back to your land divided by rivers, to your strong and powerful nation, to your tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/18.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />sending ambassadors by the Nile in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/isaiah/18.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Egypt sends messengers up the Nile River on ships made of reeds. Send them fast to Ethiopia, whose people are tall and have smooth skin. Their land is divided by rivers; they are strong and brutal, feared all over the world. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/18.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Sending ambassadors by sea, in papyrus boats on the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and bronzed, To a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is washed by rivers. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/18.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.</p><p class="hdg">sendeth</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/30-2.htm">Isaiah 30:2-4</a> Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, hoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and trusting in the shadow of Egypt. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/30-9.htm">Ezekiel 30:9</a> In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come.</p><p class="hdg">vessels.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/2-3.htm">Isaiah 2:3</a> And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.</p><p class="hdg">to a notion</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/18-7.htm">Isaiah 18:7</a> At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, from a people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after which there hath been no other: from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.</p><p class="hdg">scattered and peeled.</p><p class="hdg2">24 degrees and</p><p class="hdg2">32 degrees north lat. and</p><p class="hdg2">30 degrees and</p><p class="hdg2">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,</p><p class="hdg2">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</p><p class="hdg2">250 miles broad.</p><p class="hdg">to a people</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/10-8.htm">Genesis 10:8,9</a> Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/12-2.htm">2 Chronicles 12:2-4</a> And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord) . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/14-9.htm">2 Chronicles 14:9</a> And Zara the Ethiopian came out against them with his army of ten hundred thousand men, and with three hundred chariots: and he came as far as Maresa.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/16-8.htm">2 Chronicles 16:8</a> Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?</p><p class="hdg">Heb.</p><p class="hdg">have spoiled.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/19-5.htm">Isaiah 19:5-7</a> And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/18.htm">A Message to Cush</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>Woe to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.</span><span class="reftext">3</span>All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth, when the sign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you shall see, and you shall hear the sound of the trumpet.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/10-19.htm">Luke 10:19</a></span><br />Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/10-8.htm">Genesis 10:8</a></span><br />Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/10-9.htm">Genesis 10:9</a></span><br />And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/2-3.htm">Exodus 2:3</a></span><br />And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/12-2.htm">2 Chronicles 12:2</a></span><br />And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/14-9.htm">2 Chronicles 14:9</a></span><br />And Zara the Ethiopian came out against them with his army of ten hundred thousand men, and with three hundred chariots: and he came as far as Maresa.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/16-8.htm">2 Chronicles 16:8</a></span><br />Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/9-26.htm">Job 9:26</a></span><br />They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/18-7.htm">Isaiah 18:7</a></span><br />At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, from a people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after which there hath been no other: from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/49-14.htm">Jeremiah 49:14</a></span><br />I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let us rise up to battle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/30-9.htm">Ezekiel 30:9</a></span><br />In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../obadiah/1-1.htm">Obadiah 1:1</a></span><br />And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../habakkuk/1-7.htm">Habakkuk 1:7</a></span><br />They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.<span class="p"><br /><br 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