1 To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David.\

2 \52:1\When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.

3 \52:1\Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

4 \52:2\Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

5 \52:3\You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

6 \52:4\Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

7 \52:5\But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

8 \52:6\The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

9 \52:7\See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

10 \52:8\But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

11 \52:9\I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.

1 Ki te tino kaiwhakatangi. He Makiri; na Rawiri, i a Roeke Eromi i haere, i whakaatu ki a Haora, i mea ki a ia, Kua tae a Rawiri ki te whare o Ahimereke. He aha koe ka whakapakari ai ki te kino, e te tangata nui? He pumau tonu te atawhai o te Atua.

2 E whakatakoto ana tou arero i nga mea nanakia, e mahi hianga ana, ano he heu koi.

3 E arohaina rawatia ana e koe te kino i te pai, te teka i te korero tika. (Hera.

4 E te arero hianga, e arohaina ana e koe nga kupu horomiti katoa.

5 Ka whakangaro hoki te Atua i a koe ake tonu atu; ka tangohia atu koe e ia, ka takiritia atu i tou nohoanga, ka hutia atu hoki koe i te whenua o te ora. (Hera.

6 E kite hoki te hunga tika, a ka wehi; ka kata hoki ki a ia, ka mea,

7 Inana, ko te tangata tenei kihai nei i waiho e ia te Atua hei kaha mona; otiia, whakawhirinaki ana ki te tini o ana taonga, whakapakari ana i runga i tana mahi kino.

8 Ko ahau ia, e rite ana ki te oriwa matomato i roto i te whare o te Atua: ka whakawhirinaki ahau ki te mahi tohu a te Atua ake ake.

9 Ka whakamoemiti tonu ahau ki a koe, nau hoki tenei i mea: ka tumanako ano ki tou ingoa; he mea pai hoki, ki te aroaro o tau hunga tapu.