1. Your necks offered to the executioner’s blade
And we are called when the wine pitcher circulates

2. Are we not your brethren in times of distress? Our arrows
Share your quiver when you divide the lesser sins

3. Your left breast when asked is ours to suckle
While our right breast is cast aside when we ask sustenance

4. If we are guilty of sins similar to all people
We would have been reproached by the blamer and the forbidder

5. And if a stranger from us comes to your lands
You turn your backs the whole day to him

6. Do enemies act except as you have acted?
Demeaning the noble and seeking out their flaws

7. And your actions have turned my soul away from you
The memory of your disgrace is overwhelming

8. Your aloofness to one who protected your wars
And your enmity from both settler and nomad alike

9. So ask me no longer about your love and friendship
Say this to a heart that has turned away in disdain