1. I congratulated the one I love on his circumcision
With joy, while my heart was filled with sadness

2. May he who caused you pain be ransomed for your pain
I fear for you when the breeze touches you

3. How could I bear to see you hurt?
I am most distressed by this ordeal

4. If this purification were not a tradition
Established by Abraham long before

5. I would have confronted the circumciser when
He became Moses with a blade, and you his Kalim