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.
Eimburiro rOpaska
1 Otjiwaṋa tja Israel tji tja tjindire mOengipte,
ozondekurona za Jakob tji za zire mo
mehi rozonganda,
2 Juda otji tja karira otjiwaṋa
tja Muhona otjiyapuke,
Israel otji tja karira ouini we omuini.
3 Omuronga wOtuu wa tara nau tupuka;
Onḓonḓu Jordan, ya isa okupupa.
4 Ozondundu za tukatuka tjimuna ozongombo;
ovivanda vya tuka ovindondooro tjimuna ozondjona.
5 Otjikeṋa, Muronga wOtuu, tji tje ku tupukisa?
Nove Jordan, okutjavi tji wa isa okupupa?
6 Oweṋe, zondundu, okutjavi tji mwa
tukatuka tjimuna ozongombo?
Oweṋe, vivanda, okutjavi tji mwa
tuka ovindondooro tjimuna ozondjona?
7 Ove hi, zezera Muhona tje ya,
Ndjambi wa Jakob tja munika,
8 ngwa tjitukisa otuuwa okurira
omarindi womeva,
nomazorowe okurira otuharwi.
