1. O soul, how you were so gentle
With patience until you became patient

2. Were you not my companion when
They bid me farewell, were you not?

3. O soul, if only you had fallen
From me on the day we parted

4. Woe to the heart that was hurt
By the parting - it pierced me

5. I entrust to God a beloved one
I parted from six years ago

6. And a friend came to advise me
To let flow the water beneath me

7. She said: Woe to you, leave it
For an hour or a moment

8. She thought she was gaining my love
But she gained nothing but hatred

9. So I said: myself and my family
Are ransoms for you

10. O eye, why is it that when
You soothe my heart, you calm down?

11. And I sought you only so
You may flash and thunder for me

12. Thus you were like the Jew
Who said: this is the Sabbath day

13. When I needed him one day
He said: this is the Sabbath day