Salmos 89

A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

1 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever.

With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

2 I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever.

You established the heavens.

Your faithfulness is in them."

3 "I have made a covenant with my chosen one,

I have sworn to David, my servant,

4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever,

and build up your throne to all generations.’" Selah.

5 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh,

your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?

Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,

to be feared above all those who are around him?

8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?

Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

9 You rule the pride of the sea.

When its waves rise up, you calm them.

10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.

You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

11 The heavens are yours.

The earth also is yours,

the world and its fullness.

You have founded them.

12 You have created the north and the south.

Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

13 You have a mighty arm.

Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.

Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.

They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

16 In your name they rejoice all day.

In your righteousness, they are exalted.

17 For you are the glory of their strength.

In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh,

our king to the Holy One of Israel.

19 Then you spoke in vision to your saints,

and said, "I have given strength to the warrior.

I have exalted a young man from the people.

20 I have found David, my servant.

I have anointed him with my holy oil,

21 with whom my hand shall be established.

My arm will also strengthen him.

22 No enemy will tax him.

No wicked man will oppress him.

23 I will beat down his adversaries before him,

and strike those who hate him.

24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.

In my name, his horn will be exalted.

25 I will set his hand also on the sea,

and his right hand on the rivers.

26 He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,

my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

27 I will also appoint him my firstborn,

the highest of the kings of the earth.

28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.

My covenant will stand firm with him.

29 I will also make his offspring endure forever,

and his throne as the days of heaven.

30 If his children forsake my law,

and don’t walk in my ordinances;

31 if they break my statutes,

and don’t keep my commandments;

32 then I will punish their sin with the rod,

and their iniquity with stripes.

33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,

nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

34 I will not break my covenant,

nor alter what my lips have uttered.

35 Once I have sworn by my holiness,

I will not lie to David.

36 His offspring will endure forever,

his throne like the sun before me.

37 It will be established forever like the moon,

the faithful witness in the sky." Selah.

38 But you have rejected and spurned.

You have been angry with your anointed.

39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant.

You have defiled his crown in the dust.

40 You have broken down all his hedges.

You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

41 All who pass by the way rob him.

He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.

You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,

and haven’t supported him in battle.

44 You have ended his splendor,

and thrown his throne down to the ground.

45 You have shortened the days of his youth.

You have covered him with shame. Selah.

46 How long, Yahweh?

Will you hide yourself forever?

Will your wrath burn like fire?

47 Remember how short my time is,

for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

48 What man is he who shall live and not see death,

who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?*89:48 Sheol is the place of the dead. Selah.

49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,

which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,

how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh,

with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

52 Blessed be Yahweh forever more.

Amen, and Amen.

He Hīmene i te Wā o te Raruraru ā-Iwi

He Makiri nā Ētana Eterahi.

1 Ka waiatatia e ahau ngā mahi tohu a Ihowā ake ake;

ka whakapuakina e tōku māngai tōu pono ki ngā whakatupuranga katoa.

2 I mea hoki ahau, "Ka hangā ake te mahi tohu mō ake tonu atu;

ka whakapūmautia e koe tōu pono ki ngā tino rangi rā anō.

3 "Kua whakarite kawenata ahau ki tāku i whiriwhiri ai;

kua oati ki tāku pononga ki a Rāwiri;

4 ‘Ka pūmau i ahau ōu uri ake ake;

ka hangā tōu torōna ki ngā whakatupuranga katoa.’ " Hera

5 Ka whakamoemiti anō ngā rangi, e Ihowā,

ki āu mahi whakamīharo, ki tōu pono hoki

i roto i te whakaminenga o te hunga tapu.

6 Ko wai oti i ngā rangi hei rite mō Ihowā?

Ko wai i roto i ngā tama a te hunga nunui e rite ana ki a Ihowā,

7 he Atua whakamataku rawa i roto i te whakaminenga o te hunga tapu,

e wehingia ana i runga ake i a rātou katoa i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha ōna?

8 E Ihowā, e te Atua o ngā mano

ko wai te mea kaha hei rite mōu, e IHA?

Hei rite rānei mō tōu pono i tētahi taha ōu, i tētahi taha?

9 Ko koe te kīngi o te huamo o te moana;

ka oho ōna ngaru, ko koe hei whakamarino.

10 Mongamonga noa i a koe a Rahapa ānō he tangata i patua;

marara ana i a koe, i tōu ringa kaha ōu hoariri.

11 Nāu ngā rangi, nāu te whenua;

te ao me ōna mea e hua ana i runga nāu ēnā i pūmau ai.

12 Ko te raki me te tonga nāu ēnā i hanga;

ka hari a Taporo rāua ko Heremona ki tōu ingoa.

13 He tākakau mārohirohi tōu;

he pakari tōu ringa, rewa tonu tōu matau ki runga.

14 Ko te tika me te whakawā te tūranga o tōu torōna;

e haere ana te mahi tohu me te pono i mua i tōu aroaro.

15 Ka hari te iwi e mōhio ana ki te tangi whakahari;

e haere ana rātou, e Ihowā, i te mārama o tōu mata;

16 e hari ana rātou ki tōu ingoa i te roa o te rā;

ā, mā tōu tika ka kake ai rātou.

17 Ko koe hoki te korōria o tō rātou kaha;

mā tāu manako anō ka ara ai tō mātou haona.

18 Nā Ihowā hoki tō mātou whakangungu rākau;

ā, nā te Mea Tapu o Īharaira tō tātou kīngi.

Tā te Atua Kawenata i a Rāwiri

19 I kōrero moemoeā koe i reira ki tāu Mea Tapu, i mea:

"Kua hoatu e ahau he kaha ki runga ki tētahi mārohirohi;

kua whakanuia e ahau tētahi i whiriwhiria i roto i te iwi.

20 Kua kitea e ahau tāku pononga, a Rāwiri;

kua whakawahia ia e ahau ki tāku hinu tapu.

21 Ka ū atu tōku ringa hei āwhina mōna;

mā tōku tākakau anō ia e whakakaha.

22 E kore te hoariri e whai wāhi ki a ia;

e kore anō hoki te tama a te kino e tūkino i a ia.

23 Māku e tukituki ōna hoariri ki tōna aroaro;

ka whiua e ahau te hunga e kino ana ki a ia.

24 Otirā, ka mau ki a ia tōku pono me tāku mahi tohu;

ā, mā tōku ingoa ka ara ai tōna haona.

25 Māku anō tōna ringa ka pā ai ki te moana;

tōna matau ki ngā awa.

26 Ka karanga ia ki ahau, ‘Ko koe tōku Pāpā,

tōku Atua, te kōhatu o tōku whakaoranga.’

27 Ka waiho anō ia hei mātāmua māku

ki runga ake i ngā kīngi o te whenua.

28 Ka rongoātia e ahau tāku mahi i tohu mōna ake tonu atu;

ka mau tonu tāku kawenata ki a ia.

29 Ka meinga hoki e ahau ōna uri kia mau tonu ake ake,

tōna torōna ānō ko ngā rā o te rangi.

30 "Ki te whakarērea e āna tamariki tāku ture,

ā, kāhore e haere i āku whakaritenga;

31 ki te takahi rātou i āku tikanga;

ā, kāhore e pupuri i āku whakahau;

32 kātahi ka whāia tā rātou mahi tutū e tāku rākau,

ō rātou kino e te whiu.

33 Otirā, e kore e tangohia rawatia e ahau tāku mahi tohu i a ia,

e tuku rānei i tōku pono kia hē.

34 E kore tāku kawenata e takahia e ahau,

e kore anō e whakarerekētia te mea i puta i ōku ngutu.

35 Kotahi āku oatitanga i tōku tapu;

e kore ahau e teka ki a Rāwiri.

36 Ka mau tonu tōna uri ake ake;

ā, ka rite tōna torōna ki te rā i tōku aroaro.

37 Ka rite tōna pūmau ki tō te marama ake ake;

hei kaiwhakaatu pono anō i runga i te rangi." Hera

He Tangi mō te Hinganga o te Kīngi

38 Nā, kua panga nei koe, kua whakarihariha,

kua riri ki tāu i whakawahi ai.

39 Kua weriweri koe ki te kawenata ki tāu pononga;

kua whakanoaia e koe tōna karauna, taka noa ki te whenua.

40 Kua pākaruhia e koe ōna taiepa katoa;

whakamōtītia iho e koe ōna pā kaha.

41 E pāhua ana i a ia ngā tāngata katoa e tika ana i te ara;

he tāwainga ia nā ōna hoa tata.

42 Kua whakarewaina e koe te ringa matau o ōna hoa whawhai;

kua meinga e koe kia hari ōna hoa whawhai katoa.

43 Āe, e ngore ana i a koe te mata o tāna hoari;

kīhai anō koe i tautoko i a ia ki te tatauranga.

44 Kua whakamutua e koe tōna korōria,

kua makā tōna torōna ki raro ki te whenua.

45 Kua poroa e koe ngā rā o tōna taitamarikitanga;

kua hīpokina ia e koe ki te whakamā. Hera

He Īnoi mō te Whakawāteatanga

46 Kia pēhea te roa, e Ihowā, e whakangaro ai koe i a koe, ake tonu atu?

Kia pēhea te roa e toro ana tōu riri ānō he ahi?

47 Kia mahara ki te poto rawa o tōku tāima;

he aha i hangā ai e koe ngā tāngata katoa hei kore noa iho?

48 Ko wai tēnā tangata e ora nei, ā, e kore e kite i te mate?

E mawhiti koia i a ia tōna wairua i te kaha o te rēinga? Hera

49 E te Ariki, kei hea āu arohatanga ō mua

i oatitia ai e koe ki a Rāwiri i runga i tōu pono?

50 Maharatia, e te Ariki, te tāwai ki āu pononga;

e mau nei ki tōku uma te tāwai a ngā iwi nunui katoa;

51 te tāwai a ōu hoariri, e Ihowā,

tā rātou tāwai nei ki ngā hīkoinga o tāu i whakawahi ai.

52 Kia whakapaingia a Ihowā ake ake.

Āmine, āe Āmine.