الْمُرْسِلَةَ رُسُلاً فِي الْبَحْرِ وَفِي قَوَارِبَ مِنَ الْبَرْدِيِّ عَلَى وَجْهِ الْمِيَاهِ. اذْهَبُوا أَيُّهَا الرُّسُلُ السَّرِيعُونَ إِلَى أُمَّةٍ طَوِيلَةٍ وَجَرْدَاءَ، إِلَى شَعْبٍ مَخُوفٍ مُنْذُ كَانَ فَصَاعِدًا، أُمَّةِ قُوَّةٍ وَشِدَّةٍ وَدَوْسٍ، قَدْ خَرَقَتِ الأَنْهَارُ أَرْضَهَا.
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!