قل ويك بيلاطوسُ الباغي بفعلته

قل ويك بيلاطوسُ الباغي بفعلته

جزيتَ شرّاً بإقلالٍ وإعوازِ

جزيتَ شرّاً بإقلالٍ وإعوازِ

Say: Woe to you, Pilate, whose deed is unjust!

Say to the unjust Pilate for his deed

May you be repaid with evil—with poverty and destitution!

You were requited with evil for lessening and crippling

كيف اجترأت على من جاء مفتدياً

كيف اجترأت على من جاء مفتدياً

نفوسَنا أن تلاقيه بإبهاز

نفوسَنا أن تلاقيه بإبهاز

How dared you act against him who came to redeem

How did you dare against the one who came redeeming

Our souls, greeting him with brutality?

Our souls to meet him with mortifying

حكمتَ أن يُصلحوا بالضرب مَعْرَتَهُ

حكمتَ أن يُصلحوا بالضرب مَعْرَتَهُ

وأنت بالجلد أولى منه يا هازي

وأنت بالجلد أولى منه يا هازي

You decreed that they should correct his fault with blows,

You judged that they correct his doctrine with beating

Yet you deserve scourging more than he, O scoffer.

While you, O insulter, are more deserving of the lashing

هذا الذي ترهب الأفلاكُ سطوتَه

هذا الذي ترهب الأفلاكُ سطوتَه

وتُطْرِي مَقدِسَهُ العالي بإعزاز

وتُطْرِي مَقدِسَهُ العالي بإعزاز

This is he whose might the celestial spheres dread,

This one whom the spheres dread his might

And whose lofty sanctuary they extol with reverence.

And his sublime sanctuary anoints with honor

أبديتَهُ اليومَ عُرياناً به وَهَنٌ

أبديتَهُ اليومَ عُرياناً به وَهَنٌ

طوعاً لينقذ حَوّا من يد الهازي

طوعاً لينقذ حَوّا من يد الهازي

Today you displayed him naked and weak,

You exposed his eternality today stripped with humiliation

Of his own will, to rescue Eve from the scoffer's hand.

Willingly to save eves from the grip of the insulter