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

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

²Judha akaitwa imba yake tsvene, Nalsiraeri ushe hwake.

²Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

³Gungwa rakazviona, rikatiza; Joridhani rwakadzokera shure.

³The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back;

⁴Makomo akapembera samakondobwe, Nezvikomo samakwayana.

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

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

⁵What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?

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

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

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

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

⁸Iye akashandura dombo, rikava dziva remvura,

⁸Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.