Salmos 42

Ki te tino kaiwhakatangi. He Makiri, mā ngā tama a Koraha.

1 Rite tonu ki te hāta e kihakiha nei ki ngā manga wai

tōku ngākau e kihakiha nei ki a koe, e te Atua.

2 E hiainu ana tōku wairua ki te Atua, ki te Atua ora;

āhea ahau tae ai, puta ai ki te aroaro o te Atua?

3 Ko ōku roimata tāku kai

i te ao, i te pō,

i a rātou e mea tonu mai nei ki ahau,

"Kei hea tōu Atua?"

4 Ka mahara ahau ki ēnei mea;

me te wai tōku ngākau e maringi ana i roto i ahau:

i haere hoki ahau i roto i te huihui,

i haere tahi mātou ki te whare o te Atua,

he hari te reo, he whakamoemiti,

me te huihui e mea hākari ana.

5 He aha koe i piko ai, e tōku wairua?

I ohorere ai i roto i ahau?

Tūmanako ki te Atua;

tērā anō ahau e whakawhetai ki a ia,

mō te ora o tōna mata, 6 e tōku Atua.

Kua piko tōku wairua i roto i ahau;

koia ahau ka mahara ai ki a koe

i te whenua o Horano, o ngā Heremoni,

i Maunga Mitara.

7 Rarā ana tētahi rire ki tētahi rire

i te haruru o āu āwhiowhio wai;

tika ana āu ngaru katoa me āu tūātea

i runga i ahau.

8 Ahakoa rā e whakahaua mai anō e Ihowā tōna atawhai i te awatea;

ā, he waiata tāku ki a ia i te pō,

he īnoi ki te Atua o tōku ora.

9 Ka mea ahau ki te Atua,

"E tōku kōhatu, he aha koe i wareware ai ki ahau?

He aha ahau ka haere pōuri ai

i te tūkino a te hoariri?"

10 Ānō he hoari i roto i ōku wheua

te tāwai a ōku hoariri;

i a rātou e mea mai nei ki ahau i ngā rā katoa,

"Kei hea tōu Atua?"

11 He aha koe i piko ai, e tōku wairua?

He aha koe i ohorere ai i roto i ahau?

Tūmanako ki te Atua;

tērā anō ahau e whakawhetai ki a ia,

ko te ora nei ia o tōku mata, ko tōku Atua.

For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of Korah.

1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks,

So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:

When shall I come and appear before God?

3 My tears have been my food day and night,

While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,

How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God,

With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him

For the help of his countenance.

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me:

Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan,

And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls:

All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

8 Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time;

And in the night his song shall be with me,

Even a prayer unto the God of my life.

9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?

Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me,

While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him,

Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.