In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
Ver. 9. In that day shall messengers go forth from me,] i.e., The Chaldeans, by an instinct from me to subdue Ethiopia also.
In ships.] For Nile was navigable:
“ Lene fluit Nile. ” - Claudian.
To make the careless Ethiopians.] Heb., Confident Cush. Security ushereth in calamity.
As in the day of Egypt.] That cloudy day, Eze 30:3 when clouds of blood were dissolved upon them. Or that dismal day of old, when they perished in the Red Sea. Exo 15:10