which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers. Cross References Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you. Genesis 10:8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth. Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." Exodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 2 Chronicles 12:2 In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem 2 Chronicles 14:9 Then Zerah the Cushite came against them with an army of 1,000,000 men and 300 chariots, and they advanced as far as Mareshah. 2 Chronicles 16:8 Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand. Job 9:26 They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. Isaiah 18:7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts--from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers--to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts. Jeremiah 49:14 I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: "Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!" Ezekiel 30:9 On that day messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten Cush out of complacency. Anguish will come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom. For it is indeed coming. Obadiah 1:1 This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom--We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, "Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!"-- Habakkuk 1:7 They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty. Treasury of Scripture That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes on the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning till now; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! sendeth Isaiah 30:2-4 Ezekiel 30:9 vessels. Isaiah 2:3 to a notion Isaiah 18:7 scattered and peeled. to a people Genesis 10:8,9 2 Chronicles 12:2-4 2 Chronicles 14:9 Heb. have spoiled. Isaiah 19:5-7 |