| 1 | Our wives and children will be carried off! | |
| 2 | The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. | |
| 3 | This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. | |
| 4 | This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity. | |
| 5 | There is hardly a valley or mountainside where folk cannot tell you of some one pillaged from amongst them. |