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Olugero lw’Ennimiro y’Emizabbibu

(A)Ka nnyimbire omwagalwa wange oluyimba
    olukwata ku nnimiro ye ey’emizabbibu.
Omwagalwa wange yalina nnimiro ey’emizabbibu
    ku lusozi olugimu.
(B)Era n’agirima n’agiggyamu amayinja gonna,
    n’agisimbamu emizabbibu egisinga obulungi.
Era wakati mu yo n’azimbamu ebigulumu okulengererwa.
    N’agisimamu n’essogolero
n’agisuubira okubala emizabbibu emirungi
    naye n’ebala emizabbibu nga si mirungi n’akatono.

(C)“Era kaakano abatuuze b’omu Yerusaalemi n’abasajja b’omu Yuda,
    munsalirewo nze n’ennimiro yange ey’emizabbibu.”
(D)Ate kiki kye nandikoledde ennimiro yange eno,
    kye ssaagikolera?
Bwe naginoonyamu emizabbibu emirungi,
    lwaki saalabamu mirungi?
(E)Kaakano muleke mbabuulire
    kye nnaakola ennimiro yange ey’emizabbibu.
Nzija kugiggyako olukomera eyonooneke.
    Ndimenya ekisenge kyayo yonna erinnyirirwe.
(F)Era ndigireka n’ezika,
    sirigirima wadde okugisalira.
    Naye ndigireka n’emeramu emyeeramannyo n’amaggwa.
Ndiragira n’ebire
    obutatonnyesaamu nkuba.

(G)Ennyumba ya Isirayiri
    y’ennimiro ya Mukama Katonda Ayinzabyonna ey’emizabbibu.
Abantu ba Yuda
    y’ennimiro gye yasiima.
Yali abasuubiramu bwenkanya naye yabalabamu kuyiwa musaayi.
    Yabasuubiramu butuukirivu naye nawulira kukaaba na kulaajana.

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The Song of the Vineyard

I will sing for the one I love
    a song about his vineyard:(A)
My loved one had a vineyard
    on a fertile hillside.
He dug it up and cleared it of stones
    and planted it with the choicest vines.(B)
He built a watchtower(C) in it
    and cut out a winepress(D) as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
    but it yielded only bad fruit.(E)

“Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.(F)
What more could have been done for my vineyard
    than I have done for it?(G)
When I looked for good grapes,
    why did it yield only bad?(H)
Now I will tell you
    what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
    and it will be destroyed;(I)
I will break down its wall,(J)
    and it will be trampled.(K)
I will make it a wasteland,(L)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns(M) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain(N) on it.”

The vineyard(O) of the Lord Almighty
    is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,(P) but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness,(Q) but heard cries of distress.(R)

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