1. The land of peace and the country of bliss
It is hard for God that we grieve

2. So the cause of Palestine is a supreme cause
And the provision of the Supreme was not easy

3. We stayed up night for it as if swords
Were slicing through our livers here

4. And how can the planets please eyes
That see around it eyes of misfortune?

5. And how can life be pleasant for people
Whose paths to wishes are blocked?

6. Their country exposed to loss
And their nation exposed to oblivion

7. The Jews want to crucify it
Yet Palestine refuses to surrender

8. The woman refuses among her folk
The swords refuse and the spears refuse

9. The land of imagination and its signs
And the owner of majesty and glory

10. Does it become for their riffraff a theater
And get for their rabble an ambush?

11. By my soul, its Jordan and those who dwelt
That Jordan yesterday defended the sanctuary

12. So their wars were a fleeing refuge
And they gave all they had

13. And we will give all we have
So say to the Jews and their dispersal

14. Verily the flares of glory have fooled you
If only Balfour gave you a country that is not ours

15. We are more spacious than our Jerusalem
And you are more beloved to London

16. And gave you a homeland in the stars
No Arab wishes those abodes

17. Does your nation rob them of their rationality
And calls them benevolent?

18. And delivers the innocent to death
And a group counts it as religious?

19. And wonder at you, charging
The Arabs with inability and stupidity

20. Insulting them with ugly speech
When they deserved friendly praise

21. And all their sins are that they
Say "Do not violate our home"

22. For Palestine is not common land
To be given to whoever wants to reside

23. So if you want it with the flames of spears
We will repel you with the lengths of spears

24. For in the Arab are human traits
Other than fear and cowardice

25. And if you mix deceit between us
You will not deceive a believing man

26. And if you boycott it, that is better
For Palestine is a possession of ours

27. It was for our ancestors before us
And remains for our descendants after us

28. You have without it riches
While we have without it no riches

29. So do not account it as a homeland for you
For it was never a homeland for you

30. What we want is not impossible
And what you attempted is not possible

31. We advised you, so be rational and renounce
Balfour, that pimp of yours

32. Or else I advise you
To carry shrouds with you

33. For we will make of its land
A homeland for us and a grave for you