Salmos 42

For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.

1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,

so my soul pants after you, God.*42:1 The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "אֱלֹהִ֑ים" (Elohim).

2 My soul thirsts 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 ask me, "Where is your God?"

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

how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house,

with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

5 Why are you in despair, my soul?

Why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God!

For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

6 My God, my soul is in despair within me.

Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,

the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.

All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

8 Yahweh * 42:8 "Yahweh" is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations. will command his loving kindness in the daytime.

In the night his song shall be with me:

a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?

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

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

while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

11 Why are you in despair, my soul?

Why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God! For I shall still praise him,

the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

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.