Lumbo gwe Nzano we Kupinda pezhugwi
1 Kwakati Iziraela edwa mu Egipiti,
ng'umba ya Jakubo idwa mu bathu be lulimi gupoga,
2 Juda wakabe bugalo gwe Ndzimu gwakayengemala,
Iziraela kabe bushe gwawo.
3 Gungwa gwakalinga gukatizha,
Jorodani gukashandukila shule.
4 Matombo akatjuluka se nyundo,
matuthu akatjuluka se pkhwizana.
5 Ini tjathama kuti utizhe iwe gungwa?
Iwe Jorodani, washandukila shule kene?
6 Imwi matombo, ini makatjuluka se nyundo,
imwi matuthu ini mutamba se pkhwizana kene?
7 Tetema, iwe shango, mbeli kwa Yahwe,
mbeli kwe Ndzimu wa Jakubo,
8 iwo wakashandula shongwe ikabe dziba le vula,
bgwe linopenya likashanduka nsenya we vula.
The Lord Works Wonders
1 God brought his people
out of Egypt, that land
with a strange language.
2 He made Judah his holy place
and ruled over Israel.
3 When the sea looked at God,
it ran away,
and the Jordan River
flowed upstream.
4 The mountains and the hills
skipped around like goats.
5 Ask the sea why it ran away
or ask the Jordan
why it flowed upstream.
6 Ask the mountains and the hills
why they skipped like goats!
7 Earth, you will tremble,
when the Lord God of Jacob
comes near,
8 because he turns solid rock
into flowing streams
and pools of water.