1. O hour of regrets and tears
Did you ravage or did love ravage my life?

2. Hell filled my paths
And exceeded my ways and blocked my sides

3. From which fortress were my secrets extracted?
With my tears did I seek protection behind my composure

4. They broke me with their tyranny and said to me
Farewell is near, I said woe to you, give it to me

5. Shall I die thirsty while your stream is my river?
Shall I spend the night while my fervor and agony are my company?

6. Life has dried up on my lips and its dreams
And its imagination from that spring

7. My anguish over you has led me
To claim that the day after separation I shall not despair

8. And I wanted to saturate my eyes so I leaned
In order to discern you through my tears

9. Disgrace is nothing if your heart would be my abode
Shall I die estranged while your bosom is my abode?

10. O you who erected the structure of my soul lofty
Adorned on its sides with lights

11. Today I have a soul like a pale shadow
In a temple with walls in surrender

12. If you looked into my ribs you would see
Collapsed, crying over the collapsed one

13. Do not ask about last night and its tribulations
And take your answer from my misery and pain

14. Its distance from me was prolonged as if
It were endless, unkind and unmerciful

15. As if I am a child in it and my worries
Are a swing in its turbulent eddy

16. I suffered it and the night is the curse of a disbeliever
And I folded it and the dawn is the tear of a regretful one