They pass by like swift ships, Like an eagle swooping on its prey.

我的日子过去如快船，如急落抓食的鹰。

我的日子如蒲草船掠过，如鹰俯冲抓食。

我的日子如蒲草船掠过，如鹰俯冲抓食。

我的岁月疾驰如快船，快如急降抓食的老鹰。

我的日子消逝有如快船，好像俯冲猛扑食物的鹰。

我的日子過去如快船，如急落抓食的鷹。

我的日子如蒲草船掠過，如鷹俯衝抓食。

我的日子如蒲草船掠過，如鷹俯衝抓食。

我的歲月疾馳如快船，快如急降抓食的老鷹。

我的日子消逝有如快船，好像俯衝猛撲食物的鷹。

它一掠而去，同蒲快艇一樣；如急落攫食的兀鷹。

日過如扁舟、又如疾下攫物之鷹、

日去如扁舟、勢若巨鷹之摶擊。

我日已逝、速如扁舟、又如鵰鷹、飛以攫物、

They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.

They speed along like papyrus boats. They are like eagles swooping down on their food.

They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

They sweep by like boats made of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

They slip by like reed boats, Like an eagle that swoops on its prey.

They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.

They sweep by like boats made of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle[ that] hasteth to the prey.

They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, And more fierce than evening wolves. Their chargers charge ahead; Their cavalry comes from afar; They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.

Which sends ambassadors by sea, Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,“ Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide.”

Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the heavens. They pursued us on the mountains And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Does the eagle mount up at your command, And make its nest on high?On the rock it dwells and resides, On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.From there it spies out the prey; Its eyes observe from afar.Its young ones suck up blood; And where the slain are, there it is.”

“ Saul and Jonathan were beloved and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not divided; They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.

Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

“ Behold, he shall come up like clouds, And his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!”