Okukungubaga 5
1 Jjukira Ayi Mukama ekitutuuseeko. Tunula olabe ennaku yaffe.
Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.
2 Omugabo gwaffe guweereddwa bannamawanga, n’amaka gaffe gatwaliddwa abatali ba mu nnyumba.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 Tufuuse bamulekwa abatalina bakitaabwe, ne bannyaffe bafuuse bannamwandu.
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
4 Tusasulira amazzi ge tunywa; n’enku tuteekwa okuzigula.
We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
5 Abatucocca batugobaganya; tukooye ate nga tetulina wa kuwummulira.
Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
6 Twakola endagaano ne Misiri n’Abasuuli okutufuniranga ku mmere.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Bajjajjaffe baayonoona, ne bafa, naye tubonerezebwa olw’ebikolwa byabwe ebitaali bya butuukirivu.
Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Abaddu be batufuga, tewali n’omu ayinza okutulokola mu mukono gwabwe.
Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9 Tuba kumpi n’okuttibwa nga tunoonya emmere, olw’ekitala ekiri mu ddungu.
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Olususu lwaffe luddugadde ng’enziro olw’enjala ennyingi.
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
11 Abakyala ba Sayuuni, n’abawala embeerera ab’omu bibuga bya Yuda bakwatiddwa olw’amaanyi.
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Abalangira bawanikibbwa baleebeetera ku mikono gyabwe n’abakadde tewali abassaamu kitiibwa.
Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.
13 Abavubuka bawalirizibwa okusa emmere ku jjinja ne ku lubengo, n’abalenzi batagala nga beetisse entuumu z’enku.
The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.
14 Abakadde tebakyatuula mu wankaaki w’ekibuga, n’abavubuka tebakyayimba.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 Emitima gyaffe tegikyasanyuka, n’okuzina kwaffe kufuuse kukungubaga.
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.
16 Engule egudde okuva ku mitwe gyaffe. Zitusanze kubanga twonoonye!
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.
17 Emitima gyaffe kyegivudde gizirika, era n’amaaso gaffe kyegavudde gayimbaala.
For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,
18 Olw’okuba nga olusozi Sayuuni lulekeddwa nga lwereere, ebibe kyebivudde bitambulirako.
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.
19 Ggwe, Ayi Mukama obeerera ennaku zonna; entebe yo ey’obwakabaka ya mirembe na mirembe.
Thou, O Jehovah, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Lwaki otwelabiririra ddala okumala ennaku ezo zonna? Tuddiremu, Ayi Mukama, tudde gy’oli.
Why do thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Tukomyewo gy’oli Ayi Mukama, otuzze buggya ng’edda;
Turn thou us back to thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.
22 wabula ng’otusuulidde ddala, era ng’otusunguwalidde nnyo nnyini obutayagala na kutuddiramu.
But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.
