Isaiah 18:2

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 14:9

Asa went out to meet him and they drew up for battle in the valley of Zephathah, near Mareshah.

2 Chronicles 16:8

Were not the Ethiopians and Libyans a vast army, with great numbers of chariots and horses? And yet, because you relied on the Lord, he delivered them into your power.

Job 9:26

They shoot by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping upon its prey.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket, daubed it with bitumen and pitch, and putting the child in it, placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

Isaiah 18:7

Then will gifts be brought to the Lord of hosts—to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, Mount Zion—from a people tall and bronzed, from a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is washed by rivers.

Jeremiah 49:14

I have heard a report from the Lord, a herald has been sent among the nations: “Gather together, move against it, get ready for battle!”

Ezekiel 30:9

On that day, messengers from me will go forth in ships to terrorize confident Ethiopia. Anguish will be among them on Egypt’s day—it is certainly coming!

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the Lord, and a herald has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, so we may go to war against it!”

Habakkuk 1:7

They are terrifying and dreadful; their right and their exalted position are of their own making.

Luke 10:19

Behold, I have given you the power ‘to tread upon serpents’ and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you.