1. The opinion has passed, we have no more hesitation
So be serious, before the time of seriousness expires

2. Events have rebelled, going out of control
So do not leave today to be followed by tomorrow

3. Shall we be complacent, while the pyramids are shaken?
Shall we be satisfied, while the Nile is in chaos?

4. A people have cast their grandfather aside, while their arrows
Wound his entrails, some hit and some miss

5. When sorrow settles deeply in the souls
The weeping of widows and the cries echo

6. Indeed it is the wounded and shackled people
So who will have enough diligence? The debt is great

7. By your life, one with wisdom does not scheme
Except for that which is most proper

8. Indeed, the shackles of the playful prisoners have wept
Bonds which they envy and harvest

9. They see the face of affairs auspiciously, though which
Birds have flown inauspiciously, and it is most ominous

10. When a herald warns the people of woe
What does the threatening warner say?

11. Our fathers, we are not content with what they were content with
And we still rebel, refuse, and recoil

12. Shall we surrender to the two rulers? As for theirs,
It is compulsion, and as for ours, it is rejection

13. My excuse to the warring one who surrenders himself
Is that neither his honor remains nor is he praiseworthy