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18:2 \u201cGo, swift messengers, to a rangy and smooth-faced nation, to a fearsome people from beyond, a gibberish nation and sowing defeat, whose land is cut through with rivers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The messengers (<\/span>mal\u2019akhim<\/span><\/em>) are evidently a different group from the envoys (<\/span>tsirim<\/span><\/em>) of the preceding line. It is not clear where the Nubian envoys are heading, and different attempts have been made to line up this passage with a particular moment in the political history of the late eighth century B.C.E. The swift messengers appear to be sent out from the kingdom of Judah to announce to the Nubians the disaster about to overtake them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hebrew word translated as \u201crangy\u201d is literally \u201cpulled out\u201d or \u201c elongated,\u201d not the usual word for \u201ctall\u201d. The term represented as \u201csmooth-skinned\u201d derives from a verbal stem that means either \u201cpolished\u201d or \u201cplucked.\u201d This would be an exoticizing way to describe the tall Africans with little body hair, even though their blackness is unmentioned.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hebrew says \u201ca <\/span>qaw-qaw<\/span><\/em> nation,\u201d this being an onomatopoeia for unintelligible sounds, always a scary aspect of foreigners.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hebrew says merely \u201cand defeat,\u201d but something like \u201csowing\u201d or \u201cinflicting\u201d seems to be implied. This is in other words, a powerful nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible, <\/span><\/i>vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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