1. O night of Jabalah, does your dawn have a rising?
Alas, I called out to one who does not hear!

2. The passionate one walks toward the dawn of Jabalah,
Reluctantly, and when he walks away from it, he hastens.

3. He stays there an hour, looking around,
Then is absent for the rest of his life, never to return.

4. Do not blame him for cutting off his visit with her,
For even a connection to a land like Jabalah may be cut off.

5. And if she complains of abandonment in anguish,
He is more lost in the land of Jabalah.