لَعَمْرُكَ مَا جَرَّتْ عَلَيْهِمْ رِمَاحُهُمْ ۞ دَمَ ابْنِ نَهِيكٍ أَوْ قَتِيلِ الْمُثَلَّمِ
By your life, their spears did not bring upon them the blood of Ibn Nahīk or of the man slain in connection with al-Muthallam.
La-ʿamruka swears by the addressee’s life. The poet invokes named dead persons while denying that these men’s spears made them responsible for those deaths. Jarrat ʿalayhim recalls jarra ʿalayhim in verse 33, now under negation, shifting attention to the precise attribution of blood-guilt.