messengers ... in ships to ... Ethiopians - (Isa 18:1, Isa 18:2). The cataracts interposing between them and Egypt should not save them. Egyptians “fleeing from before Me” in My execution of judgment, as “messengers” in “skiffs” (“vessels of bulrushes,” Isa 18:2) shall go up the Nile as far as navigable, to announce the advance of the Chaldeans.
as in the day of Egypt - The day of Ethiopia’s “pain” shall come shortly, as Egypt’s day came.