my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.

I will not allow my eyes to sleep, or my eyelids to slumber,

Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.

I said, "Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.