Salmos 18

For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;

my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;

my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;

and I am saved from my enemies.

4 The cords of death surrounded me.

The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

5 The cords of Sheol*18:5 Sheol is the place of the dead. were around me.

The snares of death came on me.

6 In my distress I called on Yahweh,

and cried to my God.

He heard my voice out of his temple.

My cry before him came into his ears.

7 Then the earth shook and trembled.

The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,

because he was angry.

8 Smoke went out of his nostrils.

Consuming fire came out of his mouth.

Coals were kindled by it.

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down.

Thick darkness was under his feet.

10 He rode on a cherub, and flew.

Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,

darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,

hailstones and coals of fire.

13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky.

The Most High uttered his voice:

hailstones and coals of fire.

14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them.

He routed them with great lightning bolts.

15 Then the channels of waters appeared.

The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh,

at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

16 He sent from on high.

He took me.

He drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,

from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

18 They came on me in the day of my calamity,

but Yahweh was my support.

19 He brought me out also into a large place.

He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.

According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,

and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all his ordinances were before me.

I didn’t put away his statutes from me.

23 I was also blameless with him.

I kept myself from my iniquity.

24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.

With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure.

With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

27 For you will save the afflicted people,

but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh.

My God will light up my darkness.

29 For by you, I advance through a troop.

By my God, I leap over a wall.

30 As for God, his way is perfect.

Yahweh’s word is tried.

He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

31 For who is God, except Yahweh?

Who is a rock, besides our God,

32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

33 He makes my feet like deer’s feet,

and sets me on my high places.

34 He teaches my hands to war,

so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.

Your right hand sustains me.

Your gentleness has made me great.

36 You have enlarged my steps under me,

My feet have not slipped.

37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.

I won’t turn away until they are consumed.

38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.

They shall fall under my feet.

39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle.

You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,

that I might cut off those who hate me.

41 They cried, but there was no one to save;

even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.

I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.

You have made me the head of the nations.

A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.

The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

45 The foreigners shall fade away,

and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.

46 Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock.

Exalted be the God of my salvation,

47 even the God who executes vengeance for me,

and subdues peoples under me.

48 He rescues me from my enemies.

Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.

You deliver me from the violent man.

49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,

and will sing praises to your name.

50 He gives great deliverance to his king,

and shows loving kindness to his anointed,

to David and to his offspring,*18:50 or, seed forever more.

Tā Rāwiri Waiata Manahau

Ki te tino kaiwhakatangi. He hīmene nā te pononga a Ihowā nā Rāwiri. Nāna i whakahua ngā kupu o tēnei waiata ki a Ihowā i te rā i whakaorangia ai ia i te ringa o ōna hoariri katoa, i te ringa anō o Haora. I mea ia:

1 Ka aroha ahau ki a koe, e Ihowā,

e tōku kaha.

2 Ko Ihowā tōku kāmaka, tōku pā, tōku kaiwhakaora;

tōku Atua, tōku tino kāmaka, e whakawhirinaki ai ahau;

tōku whakangungu rākau, te haona o tōku whakaoranga, tōku pourewa tiketike.

3 Ka karanga ahau ki a Ihowā, e tika nei kia whakamoemititia;

ā, ka ora i ōku hoariri.

4 I karapotia ahau e ngā whakawiringa a te mate,

ā, whakawehia ana ahau e ngā waipuke o te kino.

5 I karapotia ahau e ngā whakawiringa a te rēinga,

i haukotia e ngā māhanga a te mate.

6 I karanga ahau ki a Ihowā i tōku pāweratanga;

i hāmama ki tōku Atua.

I whakarongo ia ki tōku reo i roto i tōna temepara,

i tae anō tāku hāmama ki tōna aroaro, ki ōna taringa.

7 Nā, ka ngāueue te whenua, ka rū,

wiri ana ngā pūtake o ngā maunga,

ngāueue ana i tōna riri.

8 I kake he paowa i ōna pongaponga,

ā, kai ana te kāpura a tōna māngai,

ngiha ana ngā waro.

9 I whakapīngoretia e ia ngā rangi, ā, heke iho ana,

ā, i raro te pōuri mātotoru i ōna waewae.

10 I eke ia ki runga ki te kerupa, ā, rere ana;

āe, i rere omaki ia i runga i ngā parirau o te hau.

11 I meinga e ia te pōuri hei wāhi ngaro mōna,

hei tēneti i tētahi taha ōna, i tētahi taha;

ko te pōuritanga o ngā wai, ko ngā kapua mātotoru o te rangi.

12 I rere atu ōna kapua mātotoru

i te wherikotanga o tōna aroaro;

te whatu, me ngā waro kāpura.

13 I papā anō te whatitiri a Ihowā i ngā rangi,

ā, puaki ana te reo o te Runga Rawa;

he whatu, he waro kāpura.

14 I kōkiritia e ia āna pere, ā, marara ana rātou;

āe, i kōperea hoki e ia te tini uira,

ā, whati ana rātou.

15 Kātahi ka kitea ngā takere o ngā wai,

ā, ka takoto kau ngā pūtake o te ao

i tāu whakatūpehupehutanga, e Ihowā,

i te whengunga o te manawa o ōu pongaponga.

16 I tono karere mai ia i runga, ka mau ki ahau;

tōia ake ahau e ia i roto i ngā wai maha.

17 Nāna ahau i ora ai i tōku hoariri kaha,

i te hunga e kino ana ki ahau;

he kaha rawa hoki rātou i ahau.

18 I huakina tatatia ahau e rātou i te rā o tōku matenga;

ko Ihowā ia tōku whakawhirinakitanga.

19 I whakaputaina ahau e ia ki te wāhi nui,

i whakaorangia ahau e ia; he āhuareka nōna ki ahau.

20 Rite tonu ki tāku mahi tika tā Ihowā utu ki ahau;

rite tonu ki te mā o ōku ringa tāna i whakahoki ai ki ahau.

21 Mōku i pupuri i ngā ara o Ihowā,

ā, kīhai i hē, i whakarere i tōku Atua.

22 Kei mua tonu hoki i ahau āna whakaritenga katoa,

kīhai anō i whakamataratia atu i ahau āna tikanga.

23 Tapatahi tonu hoki tōku whakaaro ki tōna aroaro,

ā, i tiaki ahau i ahau kei kino.

24 Nā, ka hōmai e Ihowā he utu ki ahau,

rite tonu ki tōku tika,

ki te mā o ōku ringa i tōna aroaro.

25 He tangata atawhai, ka atawhai hoki koe;

he tangata tika, ka tika hoki koe.

26 He tangata mā, ka mā hoki koe;

he tangata whakakeke, ka whakakeke hoki koe.

27 E whakaorangia hoki e koe te iwi ngākau mamae;

ka whakahokia anō e koe ki raro ngā kanohi whakakake.

28 Māu hoki e whakaū tāku rama;

mā Ihowā, mā tōku Atua, e whakamārama tōku pōuri.

29 Nāu hoki ahau i rere ai nā waenganui atu i te rōpū;

nā tōku Atua hoki i pekea ai e ahau te taiepa.

30 Tēnā ko te Atua, tika tonu tōna ara;

kua oti tāna kupu te whakamātau;

he whakangungu rākau ia

ki te hunga katoa e whakawhirinaki ana ki a ia.

31 Ko wai oti te Atua, ki te kāhore a Ihowā?

Ko wai hoki he kāmaka, ki te kāhore tō tātou Atua?

32 Ko te Atua, nāna ahau i whītiki ki te kaha,

i mea kia tino tika tōku ara.

33 Ko ia hei mea i ōku waewae kia rite ki ō te hāta;

māna hoki ahau e whakatū ki runga ki ōku wāhi tiketike.

34 Ko ia hei whakaako i ōku ringa ki te whawhai,

ā, whati ana te kōpere parāhi i ōku ringa.

35 Kua hōmai anō e koe ki ahau te whakangungu rākau o tāu whakaoranga;

puritia ana ahau e tōu ringa matau,

whakanuia ana e tōu whakaaro māhaki.

36 I whakanuia e koe ōku takahanga i raro i ahau;

tē paheke ōku waewae.

37 Ka arumia e ahau ōku hoariri, mau iho i ahau;

e kore ahau e tahuri mai, ā ngaro noa rātou.

38 Marū ana rātou i ahau, tē kaha te whakatika;

hinga ana ki raro i ōku waewae.

39 Nāu hoki ahau i whītiki ki te kaha mō te whawhai;

piko ana i a koe ki raro i ahau te hunga e whakatika mai ana ki ahau.

40 Kua meinga e koe kia tahuri mai ngā tuarā o ōku hoariri ki ahau,

kia hautopea ai e ahau te hunga e kino ana ki ahau.

41 I karanga rātou, heoi kāhore he kaiwhakaora;

ki a Ihowā, otirā kīhai i whakahoki kupu ki a rātou.

42 Nā, ka tukia rātou e ahau ā rite noa rātou ki te puehu e pūhia ana e te hau;

ākiritia atu ana rātou ki waho, ānō he paru nō te huarahi.

43 Kua whakaorangia ahau e koe i ngā ngangautanga a te iwi;

kua meinga e koe hei rangatira mō ngā tauiwi;

hei apa mōku te iwi kāhore i mātauria e ahau.

44 Kia rongo kau te taringa ki ahau, ka kakama tonu mai rātou ki ahau;

ko ngā tāngata iwi kē ngohe kau ki ahau.

45 Ka memeha haere ngā tāngata iwi kē;

ka puta wehi mai hoki i roto i ō rātou kuhunga.

46 E ora ana a Ihowā; kia whakapaingia hoki tōku kāmaka,

kia whakanuia te Atua o tōku whakaoranga;

47 ko te Atua, māna nei e rapu he utu mōku,

māna e pēhi ngā iwi ki raro i ahau.

48 Māna ahau e mawhiti ai i ōku hoariri,

āe rā, māu ahau e mea kia teitei ake i te hunga e whakatika mai ana ki ahau;

ka whakaorangia ahau e koe i te tangata tutū.

49 Mō konei ka whakawhetai ahau ki a koe, e Ihowā, i waenganui i ngā tauiwi;

ka hīmene ki tōu ingoa.

50 He nui nei tāna whakaora i tāna kīngi;

e whakaputa aroha ana ki tāna tangata i whakawahi ai,

ki a Rāwiri rātou ko ōna uri ake ake.