1. Whether you make me dwell or make me weep
We are in oblivion of what you intend for us

2. I denied the affection you had for me that I did not know
You are not to me as you used to be

3. No evil with you is profitable, and no good either
So benefactors and malefactors are equal to you

4. Do you deny my standing at your abode
Half the day, while the people of the house are sleeping?

5. We complain of thirst, but not from lack of water
Rather from the heaviness of a heart that passed the night sad

6. If our suffering benefits you, and your tormenting us delights you
Then give us more, increase it for us

7. O my joy, your messenger did not really weary me
Until you wearied, though you did not use to weary us

8. Nor did I take lightly any matter of mine that I esteemed
Until I saw you taking my matter lightly

9. If I complained to a people for whom I killed a soul
They would weep for what I complain of

10. Yet you are the people of my love, I am impassioned with you
While my bones waste away and you do not care

11. It is as though, in the land, desire expels me
From the folk of Moses, those who wandered

12. I have not passed by a people in their gatherings
Except I heard them wading into us

13. And we entrusted our secrets to some
Who were like the sons of Jacob, betraying us

14. Woe to the lovers! How miserable were their ancestors
If those who love like me are among the lovers

15. They suffer in this world for their love
They attain through it neither worldly gain nor religion

16. My heart is tender toward the people of passion?that
When they see me and what I face, they are tender

17. I weep, and one like me wept for love of a maiden
To whom God put no softness for him in her heart

18. O my joy, how many spiteful ones have I seen
Who deter you from me but are not obeyed

19. We do not care for them, since we trust in you
Whether they speak much or speak little