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Isaiah 18:2 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 18 · verse 2
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!Isaiah 18:2 · King James Version
Isaiah 18:2 in context
1Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2That 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!
3All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ambassadorstsîyra hingeH6735 →
- messengersmălʼâka messengerH4397 →
- bulrushesgômeʼproperly, an absorbentH1573 →
- sendethshâlachto send away, for, or outH7971 →
- vesselskᵉlîysomething preparedH3627 →
- watersmayimwaterH4325 →
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Interpreters are very much at a loss where to find this land that lies beyond the rivers of Cush. Some take it to be Egypt, a maritime country, and full of rivers, and which courted Israel to depend upon them, but proved broken reeds;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7