1. The speeches shake you with tribulations,
And the battalions are defeated by the book.

2. They fear the fire of your war when it is ablaze,
So what will happen when the sparks of war fly?

3. Since you girded your resolve, which is a sword,
We awaited whatever would come to pass.

4. You did not even face it before we judged
To be there with the spoils and the returning.

5. You thrust the vile mob with setbacks
Upon their heels from the side of punishment,

6. Cutting blades that death inaugurates with them,
You'd think they were pieces of clouds.

7. The dust storms battle them and climb upon them
With the most terrifying of dust storms within dust storms,

8. Whether they twist upon it or move straight,
Say the clouds sported upon the clouds.

9. And a people whose land the wilderness flowed into a sea,
Is not the sea of the attributes of nomads?

10. When the battle flares up they pass it between them,
Making it lighter than feathers.

11. Beware of ill omens, estranged Syrians,
For you have dwelt too long in estrangement.

12. Death beckoned you, and you obeyed it
Over the waterholes, to the number of specks of dust.

13. So for you the doubling was a disaster
To the extent of doubling the account.

14. And in the view of the birds in the flags, there is an opinion,
No falcon is devoid of claws.