فَقُلتُ لَها عِيثي جَعارِ وَجَرّري

فَقُلتُ لَها عِيثي جَعارِ وَجَرّري

بِلَحمِ اِمرىءٍ لَم يَشهَدِ اليَومَ ناصِرُهُ

بِلَحمِ اِمرىءٍ لَم يَشهَدِ اليَومَ ناصِرُهُ

So I said to her: Ravage, O Jaʿār, and tug

So I said to her, "My invalidity, my dragging myself about,

at the flesh of a man whose defender was not present today.

Is due to the flesh of a man who today finds none to aid him."