²⁶ They go by like ^(A)skiffs of reed,
    like ^(B)an eagle swooping on the prey.

^8 (A)Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more fierce than ^(B)the evening wolves;
    their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
    ^(C)they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

² which ^(A)sends ambassadors by the sea,
    in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
    to a nation ^(B)tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
    a nation ^(C)mighty and conquering,
    whose land the rivers divide.

⁵ When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
    ^(A)for suddenly it sprouts wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.

²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
    and makes his ^(A)nest on high?
²⁸ On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
    on ^(B)the rocky crag and stronghold.
²⁹ From there he spies out the prey;
    his eyes behold it from far away.
³⁰ His young ones suck up blood,
    and ^(C)where the slain are, there is he.”