The Bible, as far as I can tell, never identifies a people group based on their skin color. Notice this description from Isaiah as he speaks a prophecy against the people of Cush:
Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by waters.
Cush consisted of parts of modern day Ethiopia and Sudan. People from these countries are tall and smooth-skinned, even to this day. They are also black. But the Lord, speaking through Isaiah, failed to mention this fact. Instead of skin color, the Lord described the Cushites using other characteristics—height, skin quality, stance toward outsiders, language, the land they lived upon.
While noting these various aspects, the Lord remained most interested in whether the people of Cush followed him. After a devastating season described by Isaiah, a dramatic conversion was to occur. Isaiah writes that gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned…
Which strikes me, because I work with several followers of Jesus from the region formerly known as Cush. These men and women serve the Lord devotedly, and indeed bring their gifts before him. I’m better for knowing them, and proud to be their friend. Fascinating to see a promise in scripture fulfilled in their lives.
Which again has nothing to do with the color of their skin.
Isaiah 18 in week thirty-four of reading the Bible cover to cover
Photo by Emmanuel Ikwuegbu
There is no another Tall and dark-smooth skinned people apart from South Sudanese. It is truly mean South Sudan
Ian a Nilote kalenjin tribe is black skin , is it the one the prophet said in Isaiah 28 : 1- 7.
The land of beyond the river , tall,dark skinned is South Sudan
I don’t know enough about the land just thought if aliens are real…well you can imagine my thoughts on that.
“Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smoothed-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.”
Im still reading but my insides responded like when you jump off the high dive.
Amen. I’ve come to the understanding that this was Cush as well… Ethiopia and Sudan.
However, it says that the land described in verse 1 is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia and sends messengers to a people talk and smooth of skin… Which land is that? There’s a difference from that land and who they’re sending the messengers to.
The land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia is Kenya. The Nilotic tribes of Kenya are tall and dark.
So this is the truth the prophet saw from Israel ; that is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia is Kenya.
Jeremiah 13:23 NLT Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin?
Can a leopard take away its spots?
Neither can you start doing good,
for you have always done evil.
Song of Solomon 1:5 I am dark (shachor Definition: black), but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.
That’s the English translation. When you look at the original you’ll be surprised.
Can you share what the original writing states?
It could be brother I also think the same