Jesaja 18:2

nuBibeln (Swedish Contemporary Bible)

²som skickar sändebud över havet,
med papyrusbåtar över vattnen!

Gå, ni snabbfotade budbärare,
till ert välväxta folk med glänsande hy,
ett folk som är fruktat vida omkring,
det starka och segerrika folket
vars land delas av floder.^[a]

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18:2 Grundtextens innebörd är osäker i versens sista del.

Isaiah 18:2

New King James Version

²Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”

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Isaiah 18:2

King James Version

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!

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Isaiah 18:2

New International Version

²which 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)