¹When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

¹Pakubuda kwaIsiraeri Imba yaJakove ichibuda pakati pavanhu vakanga vanorumwe rurimi;

²Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

²Judha akaitwa imba yake tsvene, Nalsiraeri ushe hwake.

³The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

³Gungwa rakazviona, rikatiza; Joridhani rwakadzokera shure.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

⁴Makomo akapembera samakondobwe, Nezvikomo samakwayana.

⁵What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

⁵Unonzweiko iwe gungwa, zvaunotiza iwe? Newe Joridhani, zvaunodzokera shure?

⁶Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

⁶nemwi makomo, zvamunopembera samakondobwe; nemwi zvikomo, samakwayana?

⁷Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

⁷Bvunda iwe pasi, pamberi paShe, Pamberi paMwari waJakove;

⁸Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

⁸Iye akashandura dombo, rikava dziva remvura,