1. Around me your spears quiver
To kill me, yet here I stand, still alive

2. Whenever you charge at me, my steed trembles
The wings of your vultures flutter and are deployed

3. My sword is sharp, I grasp it
A fierce weapon that knows no retreat

4. My sword is like carnelian and it glistens like water
My weapon that never fails nor breaks

5. As light as a leaf, yet fierce in combat
You see it flash and swerve from the law

6. The charger of the heights, its truth proven
Its blades in the night seem like fire

7. You will know which of us is closer to death
When you bring the hot iron near me

8. And for the sheep in Luqah numbering eight
I converse with them intensely or softly

9. He stayed over their fertile pastures
Until they were impregnated and bore offspring

10. They woke up in the dense grasses, overwhelmed
Their udders swelling in the night

11. And one of them has epilepsy from this
It staggers when you startle it

12. I am less harmful to you than a professional poet
When his friends reproach him, he travels by night

13. And horses I have confronted with horses
Upon them the lion pants heavily