1. O dove of the wilderness, your crying has lasted long
With your beautiful voice, what made you cry?

2. If what I suspected is true, then I
More than you from intense separation.

3. I think you are distraught from parting
With a close companion, so you yearned for him.

4. But my complaint from intense passion
Is unlike what you find from your crying.

5. I only cry for sins and confessing them
And in complaining is the reaching of my salvation.

6. And when I cry I ask my Lord for mercy
And pardon so my crying is unlike your crying.