²⁶ They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

⁸ Swifter than leopards have been its horses, And sharper than evening wolves, And increased have its horsemen, Even its horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hasting to consume.

² That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, -- Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.

²³ Saul and Jonathan! They are loved and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they have not been parted. Than eagles they have been lighter, Than lions they have been mightier!

²⁷ At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?

²⁸ A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.

²⁹ From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,

³⁰ And his brood gulph up blood, And where the pierced `are' -- there `is' he!

⁵ For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

¹³ Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Wo to us, for we have been spoiled.

¹⁹ Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned `after' us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.