1. Help Egypt and seek the wellbeing of her children
For living has become straitened in her

2. Does she meet her doom with no protector to guard
Her fighters, no helper to keep her safe

3. Help her, for no country suffers when blessed
Sons of the Saxons, you are her greatest reformers

4. Are you not the most judicious people when judging
Yet most lacking when you pride yourselves?

5. Help a nation complaining to you
Of the harm of discord and a wretched life

6. We seek refuge in your justice against your delivering us
To the torment of cruel discord that scorches us

7. Shepherds of oblivion suffice what comes to her
So alas O Saxons, alas

8. A trembling soul lingered in the darkness
Clinging to tears it lets flow

9. I shook off apathy about one in agony
Concealing his anguish while shunning it

10. And I rose dragging limbs heavy
Suffering death from their afflictions

11. I perked up my hearing then sent my eyes
Behind the door, discerning the faces

12. I saw horror sprouting suddenly
Rending hearts open spontaneously

13. I saw misery racing in skins
Prosperity shunning them and sheltering from them

14. I saw ravenous wolves writhing
Their maws full in them

15. Seeking food while the home crumbles
Almost toppling on her children

16. Loyal ones, relieve her crises
For inability cannot relieve them

17. Where are the reformers? Is there no devoted one
To ransom Egypt from catastrophes?

18. Loyal ones, relieve her crises
What befell her from years suffices her

19. We shepherded droughts in Egypt's barrens
And left the meadows to her grazers

20. Her resources are exhausted by us
But not exhausted by those who exploit her

21. Rouse us migrants in her
Do we not hope for life and seek it?

22. Is half not forbidden if you prevent us
From sharing it, even if you own it?

23. Quench your vengeance to destroy souls
We seek refuge in your righteousness against your vanquishing them

24. Protectors of the Nile, how many by the Nile are craving
Sustenance it cannot contain?

25. And the breath-bereft, if death
Were water, would hasten to drink it

26. The bare-flanked winces from humiliation
Though his garb was pride and conceit

27. Protectors of the Nile, how many a soul suffers
Its demise, calling for its rescuer?

28. Grant us reparations and be not
Like those who ruin souls yet aid them not

29. You alleged we are an ignorant people
You spoke true, educate the ignorant people

30. On Judgement Day, when the nations feel
Their teachers, what is our appointment?

31. You wronged us in your governance of us
That is a governance we will not accept