To and fro, through freeze and thaws 来来回回，通过冻结和解冻

From zenith to nadir 从天顶到天底

The universal tug of war 战争的普遍拉锯战

Saw lines drawn in the sands appear 在沙画锯线出现

Divisions of a promised land 的应许之地区划

And Hell for those that dwelt 和地狱为那些住

Beneath a Pharaoh's granite hand 下方的法老的花岗岩手

Where death wed something else 死在哪里结婚别的东西

   

Millennia swam passed 几千年过去了游

Since the covened Ark 由于covened方舟

Ran aground on Ararat... 搁浅在亚拉腊山...

   

But anew, tempered shadows grew 但是，新生活，锻炼成长的阴影

Out of Midian, strewing fear 出米甸，生怕撒

Over verdant lawns, the resurgent storms 在青翠的草坪，复活的风暴

Led a desert son to sear 带领沙漠儿子烧焦

   

From the palace orchard I espied... 从皇宫果园í无意间发现...

(Where swooning trees and moonless beams vied （凡动荡不已的树木和没有月亮梁抢滩

For the painted eye of the royal bride 对于王室新娘的眼睛画

Whose gliding curves were deified) 其滑翔曲线神化）

...beyond Her grace where love would die ......超出了她的恩典，其中爱会死

Wretched destiny arrive 可怜的命运到来

   

Back and forth the prophet came 来回先知，

Riddled with a tongue of plagues 充斥着瘟疫的舌头

That would render might Egypt lame 这将使得威力埃及跛脚

If the rage of God stayed unassuaged... 如果上帝的愤怒留unassuaged ...

I listened with a heavy heart 我听到了沉重的心脏

But unveiled to the threats 但亮相的威胁

This Hebrew in a jackal's mask 这希伯来文的豺的面具

Would dredge into effect 将疏通生效

   

Thenceforth the Nile reddened 此后尼罗河变红

s if Set stretched His hand ■如果设置伸了手

To beset the damned 要困扰该死

   

And bruised with flies 并与苍蝇伤痕累累

The skies grew leadened 天空长大leadened

   

But these miracles, feared 但这些奇迹，恐怕

Were all but reared 都是，但饲养

By nature, whose law alone 从本质上讲，它仅涉及法律问题

Stood that revered 站在那崇敬

   

This hysteria passed, but still the mark 这种歇斯底里通过，但仍然标记

Of Yahveh burned on in the dark 的耶和华在黑暗中燃烧的

   

One final time, on the steps to the shrine 最后一个时间，在台阶上到神社

Of Thoth, I twined with fate 的托特，我搂住同命运

"Let my people go" “容我的百姓去”

"Still my word is no" “不过我的话是没有”

"Then Death shall be the deciding plague" “那么死亡将是决定性的瘟疫”

   

Since the crimes divine I left behind 由于犯罪神圣的我留在身后

I'd warred with every tribe that plied 我已经争战了每一个合股部落

In holy vestament, but with time 在圣vestament ，但随着时间的推移

Bored sore of clawing what was mine 抓钻孔疮什么是我的

I laid my bones and made my throne 我把我的骨头，使我的宝座

With a view to paradise 以天堂

   

Thenceforth the heavens deafened 此后震聋天

As if great beasts 仿佛大兽

Were unleashed to feast on man 被释放大饱眼福人

   

And with carrion span 并与腐尸跨度

Michael was weaponed 迈克尔weaponed

   

To descend with scorn 下降轻蔑

A dark reform 一个黑暗改革

Through Pi-Ramses 通过丕拉姆西斯

Skinning mine and Her firstborn 剥皮矿山和她的长子

   

Thus suspiria passed each sacred mark 因此suspiria擦肩而过神圣的标志

Of Yahveh, bleeding in the dark 的耶和华，出血在黑暗中

   

With nauseous dawn, a cry, forlorn 随着黎明恶心了一声，被遗弃

Unified from plazas deep 从广场深统一

The prophet's curse 先知的诅咒

Far worse had worked 差远了工作过

To wrest the war in me from sleep 若要从睡眠夺取战争的我

   

Drowned in light, a downward light 淹没在光，向下轻

Bathed the snaking exodus 洒满蜿蜒外流

Through the wilderness 在荒野

As the Aeons crept 由于劫蹑手蹑脚

Impressed with fresh bloodlust 印象深刻的新鲜嗜血