² which sends envoys by sea,
in reed vessels over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,^[a]
whose land is divided by rivers.

⁴ For though his^[a] princes are at Zoan^(A)
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,