1. By my life, the Ubaydi has surely visited his folks
With good, though from afar, an ominous visitation

2. So you have disappointed those who hope for honor from them
And failed those who generously and highly grant gifts

3. And you found us, when you came, bound by kinship
Brother, cousin, that day, and sons

4. And you found us one spear against the people
So we wrong or refuse whoever has been wronged

5. And you have come to divide between our abodes
When the two hosts meet, we will not speak

6. If only the sea, all of it, lay between you and us
And whoever of eloquent speakers and foreigners is in the meadows