That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters,  saying , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation powerful and oppressive, whose land the rivers have spoiled!  scattered…: or, outspread and polished meted…: or, that meteth out and treadeth down: Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot have…: or, despise