Behold the lands
shadowing with wings,
straddling the [waters];
which is [bisected]
by the waters of
(the Oceans of) Ethiopia:

…that sendeth ambassadors by the sea
even in vessels of bulrushes upon
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 waters have [riven].. read more