Salmos 109

Te Amuamu o tētahi Tangata i te Raruraru

Ki te tino kaiwhakatangi. He hīmene nā Rāwiri.

1 E te Atua, e whakamoemiti nei ahau,

kei wahangū koe.

2 Kua puaki hoki te māngai o te tangata kino

me te māngai o te tangata tinihanga, ki te hē mōku;

he teka ō rātou arero, e kōrero nei mōku.

3 I karapotia hoki ahau e rātou ki ngā kupu mauāhara,

ā, i whawhai takekore ki ahau.

4 Mō tōku aroha he riri tā rātou whakautu;

ko ahau ia, he īnoi tāku.

5 E hōmai ana e rātou ki ahau he kino mō te pai,

he mauāhara mō tōku aroha.

6 "Meinga he tangata kino hei rangatira mōna;

kia tū he hoariri ki tōna ringa matau.

7 Kia tau te hē ki a ia, ina whakawākia;

kia waiho anō tāna īnoi hei hara.

8 Kia torutoru ōna rā;

kia riro tāna mahi tirotiro i tētahi atu.

9 Kia pania āna tamariki,

kia pouarutia hoki tāna wahine.

10 Kia kōpikopiko noa āna tamariki, pīnono ai;

kia rapu kai hoki mā rātou i ō rātou wāhi mokemoke.

11 Kia haoa e te kaituku moni āna mea katoa;

kia pāhuatia hoki e ngā tāngata iwi kē āna māuiuitanga.

12 Kaua tētahi hei hoatu noa i te aroha ki a ia;

kaua hoki tētahi hei atawhai i āna pani.

13 Kia hātepea pūtia ōna uri;

ā, i tō muri whakatupuranga kia horoia rawatia atu ō rātou ingoa.

14 Kia maharatia e Ihowā te kino o ōna mātua;

kei murua hoki te hara o tōna whaea.

15 Kia mau tonu ki te aroaro o Ihowā;

kia hātepea atu ai e ia te maharatanga ki a rātou i runga i te whenua.

16 Mōna kīhai i mahara ki te mahi tohu;

heoi, tūkino ana ia i te ware, i te rawakore,

i te hunga ngākau marū, kia patua ai rātou.

17 Āe rā, i pai ia ki te kanga, ā, kua tae mai ki a ia;

kīhai ia i aro ki te manaaki, heoi kua mamao tērā i a ia.

18 I kākahu ia i te kanga ki a ia, ānō ko tōna kākahu;

nā, kua tae tērā ki roto ki a ia ānō he wai,

me he hinu hoki ki roto ki ōna wheua.

19 Waiho ki a ia hei kākahu hīpoki mōna,

hei whītiki hoki e whītikiria tonutia ai ia."

20 Nā, hei utu tēnā mā Ihowā ki ōku hoariri,

ki te hunga hoki e kōrero kino nei ki tōku wairua.

21 Kia puta tāu mahi mōku, e te Atua, e te Ariki,

he whakaaro ki tōu ingoa;

nā te mea he pai tāu mahi tohu, whakaorangia ahau.

22 He ware hoki ahau, he rawakore,

kua mamae hoki tōku ngākau i roto i ahau.

23 Ka riro ahau me te ātārangi e whakawairua kau ana;

e peipeia ana ahau me he māwhitiwhiti.

24 Hūrorirori kau ōku turi i te nohopuku;

ā, e kohia ana te ngako o ōku kikokiko.

25 Kua waiho ahau hei tāwainga mā rātou;

ka kite rātou i ahau, ka rūrū ō rātou mātenga.

26 Āwhinatia ahau, e Ihowā, e tōku Atua;

kia rite ki tōu aroha tāu whakaora i ahau.

27 Kia mātau ai rātou ko tōu ringa tēnei;

ā, nāu tēnei, e Ihowā, i mea.

28 Mā rātou e kanga, māu ia e manaaki;

kia whakamā rātou ina whakatika;

ko tāu pononga ia kia hari.

29 Kia whakakākahuria ōku hoariri ki te whakamā,

ā, ko tō rātou numinumi hei koroka hīpoki mō rātou.

30 Ka tino whakawhetai tōku māngai ki a Ihowā;

āe rā, ka whakamoemiti ahau ki a ia i waenganui o te mano.

31 E tū hoki ia ki te ringa matau o te rawakore,

hei whakaora i a ia i te hunga e whakahē ana i tōna wairua.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:

They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

3 They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,

And fought against me without a cause.

4 For my love they are my adversaries:

But I give myself unto prayer.

5 And they have rewarded me evil for good,

And hatred for my love.

6 Set thou a wicked man over him;

And let an adversary stand at his right hand.

7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;

And let his prayer be turned into sin.

8 Let his days be few;

And let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless,

And his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;

And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;

And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;

Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

13 Let his posterity be cut off;

In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;

And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15 Let them be before Jehovah continually,

That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

16 Because he remembered not to show kindness,

But persecuted the poor and needy man,

And the broken in heart, to slay them.

17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;

And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,

And it came into his inward parts like water,

And like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,

And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

20 This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,

And of them that speak evil against my soul.

21 But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake:

Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;

22 For I am poor and needy,

And my heart is wounded within me.

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:

I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24 My knees are weak through fasting;

And my flesh faileth of fatness.

25 I am become also a reproach unto them:

When they see me, they shake their head.

26 Help me, O Jehovah my God;

Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:

27 That they may know that this is thy hand;

That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.

28 Let them curse, but bless thou:

When they arise, they shall be put to shame,

But thy servant shall rejoice.

29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,

And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

30 I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;

Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,

To save him from them that judge his soul.