Yesaya 18:2

Negeri itu mengirim utusan mengendarai perahu-perahu dari alang-alang air dengan suruhan “Cepat sampaikan pesan ini!” Mereka pergi meminta bantuan militer kepada suatu bangsa penakluk yang kuat. Orangnya tinggi-tinggi dan berkulit mengkilap. Di mana-mana bangsa itu ditakuti orang. Negerinya dilintasi sungai-sungai.

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!