1. Some of this estrangement and hostility
O people of oppression, be mindful of God

2. You have filled space with deceit and ignorance
And ascended the peak of tyranny

3. You launched ships throwing fireballs
Into a combusting sea of warfare

4. Tearing through the sea and covenants and the
Sanctity of neighbors openly

5. Driven by the grudges of a people against a people
Who escaped the disgrace of grudges

6. Whoever saw them sail thought the people
Rose to take vengeance for the homelands

7. No - by the Lord of the fleet - the fleet
Did not carry an army to protect the Abyssinians

8. The people of oppression are too proud
To be shamed twice in battle

9. War is not for the formidable enemy
With men and horsemen

10. Rather, war is for the wretched who kept their word
While their neighbors slept in safety

11. And opened their doors hospitably
To whoever sought refuge with them

12. And gave them the rights of their children
The deeds of the virtuous to the impassioned

13. Stirring the people to break their kindness
Why did peace beget a grueling war

14. That scorches faces in savagery?
Favors were sown into the worst hands

15. Which have always produced unbelief
So vanish manliness in the era of

16. Good-for-nothings from the Romans
We do not trust each other - this

17. Is what man has prepared for man
If you greet a stranger, greet

18. In the shadow of swords and spears
An embrace may become a wrestling match

19. In the age of morals and knowledge