He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
Isaiah 18:2, Septuagint
Septuagint numbering. Some verses in Isaiah are numbered differently in English Bibles.
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