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Tambulatambulako mu bifo by’ekibuga olabe bwe byonooneddwa!
    Olabe omulabe nga bw’azikirizza ennyumba yo.

(A)Abalabe bo baleekaanira mu kifo kyo gye twakuŋŋaaniranga;
    ne bagenda nga bakiramba n’ebendera zaabwe.
(B)Beeyisa ng’abantu ababagalidde embazzi
    abatema emiti mu kibira.
(C)Batemyetemye n’embazzi ebintu ebyole,
    era ne babissessebbula n’obubazzi.
Bookezza awatukuvu wo;
    ne bafaafaaganya ekifo kyo eky’Erinnya lyo.
(D)Baateesa nga bagamba nti, “Tujja kubazikiririza ddala!”
    Baayokya dda amasinzizo ga Katonda gonna agali mu nsi eno.

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Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,(A)
    all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

Your foes roared(B) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards(C) as signs.
They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.(D)
They smashed all the carved(E) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled(F) the dwelling place(G) of your Name.(H)
They said in their hearts, “We will crush(I) them completely!”
    They burned(J) every place where God was worshiped in the land.

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