18:2 that sends messengers by sea,
who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus.
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people,
to a people that are feared far and wide,
to a nation strong and victorious,
whose land rivers divide.
18:7 At that time
tribute will be brought to the Lord who commands armies,
by a people that are tall and smooth-skinned,
a people that are feared far and wide,
a nation strong and victorious,
whose land rivers divide.
The tribute
41:2 Who stirs up this one from the east?
Who
He hands nations over to him,
and enables him to subdue
He makes them like dust with his sword,
like windblown straw with his bow.
51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give
the vindication I provide