1. O You who called us to a call unfinished,
You have excelled, indeed, in painful deeds,

2. And built of righteousness and generosity,
It would have sufficed us little sustenance,

3. And a meal of tender roasted meat,
And a piece of Your forbidden bread,

4. And a cup of water from a leather bag,
But you shunned providing morsels,

5. And said to the guest with mouth wide open,
A toothache I know well from Akhzam.