Stasimon 7
[Choral 2]
Surely you understand?
1730
Antigone
Why this rebuke?
1730
Ismene.
And surely you know this, too—
Antigone
What more would you tell me?
Ismene
That he perished without a tomb, apart from everyone.
Antigone
Lead me there, and then kill me, too.
Ismene
Unhappy me! Abandoned and helpless,
where am I now to live my wretched life?
1735
Chorus
Dear girls, do not be afraid.
Antigone
But where shall I flee?
Chorus
Already a refuge has been found—
Oedipus
What do you mean?
Chorus
—That no harm befall you.
1740
Chorus
What do you think?
Antigone
How we are to go home, I cannot tell.
Chorus
Do not seek to go.
Antigone
Trouble surrounds us.
Chorus
And previously it bore heavily.
Antigone
Then it was desperate, but now even crueler.
1745
Chorus
Vast, then, is the sea of your troubles.
Antigone
Alas, alas! Zeus, where shall we turn?
To what last hope does the divinity now drive us?
1750
