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1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 2that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
Isaiah 18:1-2 (ASV)