²⁹ From there it searches for prey;^(A)
its eyes penetrate the distance.

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.

⁸ Their horses are swifter^(A) than leopards^(B)
and more fierce^[a] than wolves of the night.
Their horsemen charge ahead;
their horsemen come from distant lands.
They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.^(C)