Go, swift messengers, To a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people feared from there and beyond, A nation of command upon command and of treading down others, Whose land the rivers cut through.

• 你们快行的使者，要到身材高大、皮肤光滑的国民那里，到为远近的人所畏惧的民族那里去；这国民是命令加上命令，践踏人的，他们的地有江河分开。