This World Is Not My Home (Navajo Lyrics)

This video provides the lyrics to "This World is Not My Home," written by Albert E. Brumley, & translated by Roger Deal & Evan Adams, into the Navajo language. The music is by the Beach Family, from Cedar Creek, AZ. The literal English translation is written below each Navajo word to help learn the words and meaning of the song. Enjoy!

The singers sing the lyrics a little differently since the performers are members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Apache is spoken differently but similarly to Navajo.

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Music

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• Native
• American
• Indian
• gospel
• christian
• music
• hymn
• praise
• worship
• Navaho
• Dineh
• Dine
• Diné
• mission
• trip

[Fallen616]

I find it a little weird and odd that Navajo Christians sing Christian hymns and prayers in the Navajo language. I mean, from what I've been taught, the Diyine Diné -The Holy People or deities - can only understand prayers and blessings in the Navajo language. So wouldn't that be a paradox, for praying to God in a language that would actually be praying to the various Navajo gods and adhering to the traditional teachings. So just uttering the Navajo language is a very sacred rite to the gods.

[daybreakwarrior]

@Fallen616 You were taught incorrectly! That's why these videos are here to correct misconceptions.

[achee2012]

Your Navajo, you shouldn't be thinking that way. If we don't respect that this world IS our home we lose it. This way of thinking is the white way, and the white way don't think of this world a our mother and that's why they hurt the land and the people that live among her.

[daybreakwarrior]

I'm Christian, and I do think this way. This world isn't my home!

[polly791]

Thank God that this world is not our eternal home. Make sure you are prepared to meet the Lord Jesus Christ in the end. Admit u r a sinner, Believe that God sent us His only Son to pay the price for our sins by dying on the cross of Calvary; Confess Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, then live for him till u die. Its as simple as that. THEN U WILL REIGN WITH HIM FOREVER IN HEAVEN THRU ETERNITY! O make sure u go to church so u can learn more about God so u can serve Him better. I'll Pray 4 U!

[bahe2010utube]

@daybreakwarrior - we shall see where we will end up. right now we are going on "Gin Ni". i think we all pray for one purpose "Hope". personally i hope to be somewhere there is no suffering, may it be heaven or the spirit world. One thing i know i will not denounce my race which is Dine', and we have a culture, tradition and way of life. as Dine' i respect western/traditional way of life. Oh yes u will say "Thou shall not worship other Gods". But like i said we pray for one purpose "Hope".

[and01whut]

These songs sung in Navajo remind me of my grandma and grandpa. I can remember hearing these songs when I was a little girl, I want my children to experience the same thing I did when I was little and when I used to hear these songs all the time at revivals!

[prettyjoecool]

To me it is only a way to communicate with each other just the say as any other language. The only language no other being or satan does not know is the Speaking in Tongues, utterance. A navajo can use his/her language in hynms if he/she wants to, there is no wrong in doing so becuase it is his/her language. Therefore it is not wrong.

[prettyjoecool]

Some say the navajo language is sacred, I am a Navajo and a christian. Our language was given to us by God himself, no other God or Gods exist but only him. If our language is sacred wouldn't any other language be as well?

[prettyjoecool]

This may be our mother earth but it is still not my home becuase I am just passing through, my treasures are in heaven. It is not only the white man who hurt or distroy the land. Every race has done their share is that part.

[teashortie]

you really really need to read the bible and maybe you would understand that this world .....iguess your mother(earth) was only made for a time until god comes and takes us to our true home so i strongly disagree with you this world is not our home our real home is with god.

[Fallen616]

@daybreakwarrior Well I don't want to say their misconceptions because you must understand; that insults and discredits the generations of elders that taught those lessons. The Navajo language is sacred and was created by the Diyine Diné and when one speaks the Diné langauge, Haashch’ééłti’í and Haaschch’é’óghaan listen. And its also weird when Navajos sing hyms like this when Navajo prayers first bless Nahasdzáán Shimá and Yádiłhił Shitaá, because the Earth provides, shelters, and heals.