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.
A Passover Song
1 When the people of Israel left Egypt,
when Jacob's descendants left that foreign land,
2 Judah became the Lord's holy people,
Israel became his own possession.
3 The Red Sea looked and ran away;
the Jordan River stopped flowing.
4 The mountains skipped like goats;
the hills jumped around like lambs.
5 What happened, Sea, to make you run away?
And you, O Jordan, why did you stop flowing?
6 You mountains, why did you skip like goats?
You hills, why did you jump around like lambs?
7 Tremble, earth, at the Lord's coming,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who changes rocks into pools of water
and solid cliffs into flowing springs.