ترانه‌ی عِزرا – شعری از مجید نفیسی

The Song of Ezra

Majid Naficy

The god of Babylonia

Forced us into exile,

Destroyed our temple,

Put our women in servitude,

Cut off our men’s heads,

And gave our dead to vultures.

The Jewish God turned His back on us

And called Nebuchadnezzer

The whip of His wrath.

Now we build a New Jerusalem

And shouts of our joy

Mingle with cries of our grief.

No matter if Jews

Have married Gentiles.

Let us all gather at this tall wall

And cry out in one voice

Towards the dark sky:

“Oh, you blood-shedding gods,

We do not want you.

Stay on your heavenly thrones

And leave alone the soil of the earth.”

Only our gentle hands

Can rebuild this wall.*

        From “Seven Sacred Songs”

        January 4, 1991

*- Ezra was a Jewish prophet after the return of the Jewish people from the Babylonian Captivity to Jerusalem.