1. O homes that are now empty,
May God comfort your people in their loss.

2. Our sorrows have returned these nights,
How much have we grieved and how long have we lamented.

3. If the fates do not take pity on your children,
How can we hope they will pity the poets?

4. If complaining of the pains of a day were allowed,
All people would complain of Eve.

5. Adam came to her longing,
If only she had not come and he had not approached.

6. They saw each other and were afflicted, then failed,
Wretched, so they would teach us misery.

7. Bring us, O time, a day of rest,
Then if it passes bring us relief.

8. We are content with little justice from you,
Even if you do not like being just.

9. May God have mercy on the chaste bodies
That have been torn apart in their homes.

10. No rock remains in them, and every victim
Leaves behind a bereaved woman.

11. The troops of misfortune attacked them until
They filled the valleys with their remains.

12. Their fire burned them so neither land
Nor sky could be seen.

13. The enemy rejoiced at their wailing,
Thinking it was singing.

14. And when the orphans wept it delighted them,
So they slaughtered them to increase the crying.

15. The wicked forever feast on flesh and drink only
Blood from the oppressed.

16. A tyrant's rule is long,
Not out of God's love for tyrants.

17. Have mercy, O hearts, on these victims,
For they hope in you, do not reject hope.

18. Our brothers who were destroyed
Called us but we did not answer.

19. If we cannot reach them,
Can we not one day show loyalty?

20. I wonder as they called "O Lord,
Save us!" did you not hear that call?

21. If they perish, before them a people perished.
None can stop what is destined.

22. We grieve for the old man weeping in sorrow -
Did we see the virgin's cheek grow pale?

23. She weeps for a father, for a brother, then
Does not stop her tears out of shyness.