1. Why do you turn away, O gazelle of the valley?
You have prolonged my struggles and troubles.

2. Who will save me from the injustice of your love?
Who will have mercy on me? Who will help me?

3. My youth is wasted in love and its torment
Is renewed by your recurring abandonment.

4. O people of my beloved! Are you content
To see me a killer of the one God?

5. I live dead with hope and despair
Until I see the fulfillment of that promise.