Isaiah 18:2

Luther1545⁽ⁱ⁾ ² das Botschaften auf dem Meer sendet und in Rohrschiffen auf den Wassern fähret. Gehet hin, ihr schnellen Boten, zum Volk, das zerrissen und geplündert ist, zum Volk, das greulicher ist denn sonst irgendeins, zum Volk, das hie und da ausgemessen und zertreten ist, welchem die Wasserströme sein Land einnehmen.

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sendeth.
Isaiah 30:2-4; Ezekiel 30:9
vessels.It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile a light sort of ships or boats made of the papyrus. See note on Ex 2:3.
to a nation.
Isaiah 18:7
scattered and peeled. or, outspread and polished.Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "stretched out in length and smoothed." Egypt, which is situated between 24 degrees and 32 degrees N. lat. and 30 degrees and 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, 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 250 miles broad.
to a people.
Genesis 10:8; Genesis 10:9; 2 Chronicles 12:2-4; 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 16:8
Heb. Meted out and trodden down. or, that meteth out andtreadeth down. Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot. This is an allusion to the frequent necessity of having recourse to mensuration in Egypt, in order to determine their boundaries, after the inundation of the Nile had smoothed their land and effaced their landmarks; and to their method of throwing seed upon the mud, when the waters had subsided, and treading it in by turning their cattle into the fields.
have spoiled. or, despise.
Isaiah 19:5-7