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کی ز سنگی چشمهها جوشان شدی ** در بیابانمان امان جان شدی
- How would springs gush from a rock, (and how) would there be security for our lives in the desert?
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بل به جای خوان خود آتش آمدی ** اندر این منزل لهب بر ما زدی
- Nay, truly, fire would come instead of trays: flames would beat upon us in this abode.
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چون دو دل شد موسی اندر کار ما ** گاه خصم ماست گاهی یار ما 2490
- Forasmuch as Moses has become of two minds concerning us, he is sometimes our enemy and sometimes our friend.
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خشمش آتش میزند در رخت ما ** حلم او رد میکند تیر بلا
- His anger sets fire to our goods; his clemency averts the arrow of affliction.
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کی بود که حلم گردد خشم نیز ** نیست این نادر ز لطفت ای عزیز
- When (how) may it be that anger shall again become clemency? This is not extraordinary (as proceeding) from thy grace, O venerable one.
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مدح حاضر وحشت است از بهر این ** نام موسی میبرم قاصد چنین
- To praise any one present is (a cause of) embarrassment; on this account I am purposely using the name of Moses, like this.
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ور نه موسی کی روا دارد که من ** پیش تو یاد آورم از هیچ تن
- Otherwise, how should Moses deem it right that I make mention of anybody before thee?
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عهد ما بشکست صد بار و هزار ** عهد تو چون کوه ثابت برقرار 2495
- Our covenant hath been broken hundreds and thousands of times; Thy covenant, like a mountain, stands firm and stable.
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عهد ما کاه و به هر بادی زبون ** عهد تو کوه و ز صد که هم فزون
- Our covenant is straw and subject to every wind (of passion); Thy covenant is a mountain, and even more than a hundred mountains.
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حق آن قوت که بر تلوین ما ** رحمتی کن ای امیر لونها
- By the truth of that power (which is Thine), have some mercy upon our mutability, O Ruler of (all) mutations!