Oikumwifa yomokupita mo muEgipiti
1 Israel eshi a tembwilwe muEgipiti,
eumbo laJakob eshi la dile moshiwana
shelaka tali duma,
2 Opo Juda a ninga ouyapuki waye,
naIsrael onhele youhamba waye.
3 Omeva efuta okwe shi mona,
ndele taa i onhapo,
omulonga Jordan owa shuna lwanima,
4 osha nhukifa eemhunda ngaashi eemenye
oimhundangala, ongaashi eedjona.
5 Efuta oove, oshike she ku hanga,
eshi to faduka po,
naave Jordan, eshi to i shanimanima?
6 Nanye eemhunda, eshi tamu nhukaanhuka
ngaashi eedi deemhedi,
nanye oimhundangala ngaashi eedjona?
7 Edu oove, kakama koshipala shOmwene,
koshipala shaKalunga kaJakob,
8 ou ta shitukifa emanya ediva,
eenghungumanya di ninge ofifiya.
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.
