which sends envoys by sea,
in reed vessels over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,[a]
whose land is divided by rivers.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:2 Hb obscure

17 He came and proclaimed the good news(A) of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.(B)

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