1. Palestine in exile firmly shackled
We sympathize in overwhelming sorrow

2. Rising and falling within us the chests
Sighing while downcast are our sights

3. From behind this distant commotion
We greet you with heart wrenching tears

4. Your struggle lit the wicks of souls
So its sparks flared illuminating

5. A struggle filling the pulsating hearts
Straining the exhausted strength

6. And inscribed its verses in eternity
With the souls of your murdered children

7. Palestine how sleepless we are among us
Some of the misery - how violent it gets

8. To the field of glory in you it aspires
But the rope of purpose made it firm

9. So it spends the night raging in solitude
And wakes while the eyes overflowing

10. Manhood weeps wounded
And hopes collapse demolished

11. For the tears of the orphan and orphan's mother
And suppressed chests worn out

12. Beware of tears O trustees
In their coves thirsts the scorched

13. If your ships met the tears
We'd fear the tears would sink them

14. Sons of the sea goddess you attacked us
While the sea was in our belt

15. You freed us to enslave
Does the freedman pawn who freed him?

16. You broke the covenants of good faith
For a promise to Balfour patched up

17. To Allah - From your love (which is) hypocrisy
And from Balfour's promise a tearing

18. You slaughtered Palestine woe unto us
Making lawful its protector's pay

19. Were their promises wisdom
While ours were heresy?

20. Come gather the wreckage of its ruins
The blood stained cracked blades

21. And say we overpowered the weak
And buried its disturbing truth

22. Sons of the sea goddess be not arrogant
Ask time it will tell you about certainty

23. If the universe glanced angrily at us
Our sights are good at staring back

24. And if tyranny craves our humiliation
Woe to the humiliator - how foolish is he

25. Palestine you revived our days
And glory to us - whatever withered it

26. And walked to the altar of sacrifice
To offer redemption from the ruinous

27. And with blood - the draft of life
You quenched the ground a overwhelming drink

28. So your blood spilled
A redemption for our vanished glories

29. Palestine marching to the gallows
Palestine ascending into the blaze

30. And my death, Palestine, death is pride
A ransom for unconditional freedom