Isaiah 18:2

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2 H7971 That sendeth [H8802] H6735 ambassadors H3220 by the sea H3627 , even in vessels H1573 of bulrushes H6440 upon H4325 the waters H3212 , saying, Go [H8798] H7031 , ye swift H4397 messengers H1471 , to a nation H4900 scattered [H8794] H4178 and peeled [H8794] H5971 , to a people H3372 terrible [H8737] H1973 from their beginning hitherto H1471 ; a nation H6978 meted out H4001 and trodden down H776 , whose land H5104 the rivers H958 have spoiled [H8804] !

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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