1 I am the man who has seen affliction

by the rod of his wrath.

2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,

and not in light.

3 Surely he turns his hand against me

again and again all day long.

4 He has made my flesh and my skin old.

He has broken my bones.

5 He has built against me,

and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 He has made me dwell in dark places,

as those who have been long dead.

7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.

He has made my chain heavy.

8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help,

he shuts out my prayer.

9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone.

He has made my paths crooked.

10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait,

as a lion in hiding.

11 He has turned away my path,

and pulled me in pieces.

He has made me desolate.

12 He has bent his bow,

and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

14 I have become a derision to all my people,

and their song all day long.

15 He has filled me with bitterness.

He has stuffed me with wormwood.

16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel.

He has covered me with ashes.

17 You have removed my soul far away from peace.

I forgot prosperity.

18 I said, "My strength has perished,

along with my expectation from Yahweh."

19 Remember my affliction and my misery,

the wormwood and the bitterness.

20 My soul still remembers them,

and is bowed down within me.

21 This I recall to my mind;

therefore I have hope.

22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,

because his mercies don’t fail.

23 They are new every morning.

Great is your faithfulness.

24 "Yahweh is my portion," says my soul.

"Therefore I will hope in him."

25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,

to the soul who seeks him.

26 It is good that a man should hope

and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 Let him sit alone and keep silence,

because he has laid it on him.

29 Let him put his mouth in the dust,

if it is so that there may be hope.

30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.

Let him be filled full of reproach.

31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.

32 For though he causes grief,

yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

33 For he does not afflict willingly,

nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,

when the Lord doesn’t command it?

38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

39 Why should a living man complain,

a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways,

and turn again to Yahweh.

41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

42 "We have transgressed and have rebelled.

You have not pardoned.

43 "You have covered us with anger and pursued us.

You have killed.

You have not pitied.

44 You have covered yourself with a cloud,

so that no prayer can pass through.

45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse

in the middle of the peoples.

46 "All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

47 Terror and the pit have come on us,

devastation and destruction."

48 My eye runs down with streams of water,

for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eye pours down

and doesn’t cease,

without any intermission,

50 until Yahweh looks down,

and sees from heaven.

51 My eye affects my soul,

because of all the daughters of my city.

52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,

those who are my enemies without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon,

and have cast a stone on me.

54 Waters flowed over my head.

I said, "I am cut off."

55 I called on your name, Yahweh,

out of the lowest dungeon.

56 You heard my voice:

"Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,

and my cry."

57 You came near in the day that I called on you.

You said, "Don’t be afraid."

58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.

You have redeemed my life.

59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.

Judge my cause.

60 You have seen all their vengeance

and all their plans against me.

61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,

and all their plans against me,

62 the lips of those that rose up against me,

and their plots against me all day long.

63 You see their sitting down and their rising up.

I am their song.

64 You will pay them back, Yahweh,

according to the work of their hands.

65 You will give them hardness of heart,

your curse to them.

66 You will pursue them in anger,

and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

1 Ko ahau te tangata kua kite i te pouri, he mea na te rakau o tona riri.

2 I arahina e ia, i meinga kia haere i te pouri, kahore i te marama.

3 He pono kua tahuri mai ia ki ahau, kua anga mai tona ringa ki ahau, a pau noa te ra.

4 Kua meinga nei e ia oku kikokiko me toku kiri kia rite ki o te koroheke, mangungu kau i a ia oku wheua.

5 Kua hanga e ia he patu moku; karapotia ana ahau ki te wai kawa, ki te raruraru.

6 Kua meinga ahau e ia kia noho ki nga wahi pouri, kia pera me te hunga kua mate noa ake.

7 Kua oti ahau te taiepa mai e ia, te puta atu ahau; kua meinga e ia toku mekameka kia taimaha.

8 Ae ra, i ahau e karanga ana, e hamama ana kia awhinatia, ka araia mai e ia taku inoi.

9 Kua oti ano oku ara te taiepa mai e ia ki te kohatu tarai, whakakopikopikoa ake e ia oku ara.

10 Ko tona rite ki ahau kei te pea e whanga ana, kei te raiona i nga wahi ngaro.

11 Whakangaua ketia ana e ia oku ara, haehaea putia iho ahau; meinga ana ahau e ia kia noho kau noa iho.

12 Kua whakapikoa e ia tana kopere, a whakaturia ake ahau e ia hei koperenga pere.

13 Kua meinga e ia nga pere o tana papa pere kia ngoto ki oku whatumanawa.

14 Kua waiho ahau hei katanga ma toku iwi katoa; hei waiata ma ratou a pau noa te ra.

15 Kua whakakiia ahau e ia ki nga mea kawa, whakainumia rawatia ana ahau e ia ki te taru kawa.

16 Kua whatiwhatiia ano hoki e ia oku niho ki te kirikiri, hipokina ana ahau e ia ki te pungarehu.

17 Kua nekehia atu e koe toku wairua kei tata ki te rangimarie; i wareware ahau ki te pai.

18 Ki tonu ake ahau, kua pirau toku kaha, kahore he tumanakohanga maku ki a Ihowa.

19 Mahara ki toku ngakau mamae, ki toku pouri, ki te taru kawa, ki te wai kawa.

20 Maharahara tonu toku wairua ki a ratou, piko tonu iho i roto i ahau.

21 E whakahokia ake ana tenei e ahau ki toku ngakau, koia i tumanako ai ahau.

22 He mahi tohu na Ihowa te poto ai tatou, he kore no ana mahi aroha e mutu.

23 E hou tonu ana ratou i tenei ata, i tenei ata; he nui tou pono.

24 Ko Ihowa te wahi moku, e ai ta toku wairua; no reira ka tumanako ahau ki a ia.

25 He pai a Ihowa ki te hunga e tumanako ana ki a ia, ki te wairua e rapu ana i a ia.

26 He pai ano kia tumanako te tangata, kia tatari marie hoki ki ta Ihowa whakaora.

27 He pai ano mo te tangata kia amohia e ia te ioka i tona tamarikitanga.

28 Me noho ia, tona kotahi, me whakarongo puku hoki, no te mea nana i uta ki a ia.

29 Me tuku e ia tona mangai ki te puehu; mehemea pea tera he tumanakohanga.

30 Me hoatu e ia tona paparinga ki te tangata e papaki ana i a ia: kia ki tonu ia i te tawai.

31 E kore hoki e mau tonu ta Ihowa panga:

32 Ahakoa whakapouri ia, ka aroha ano ia, ka rite ki te nui o tana mahi tohu.

33 Kahore hoki ona ngakau whiu, whakapouri ranei, i nga tama a te tangata.

34 Ko te kuru i nga herehere katoa o te whenua ki raro i ona waewae;

35 Ko te whakapeau ke i te tika o te tangata ina whakawakia i te aroaro o te Runga Rawa;

36 Ko te whakariro ke i ta te tangata ina totohe, e kore tena e whakapaingia e te Ariki.

37 Ko wai tenei hei ki mai, a ka oti, i te mea kihai i whakahaua e te Ariki?

38 He teka ianei e puta mai ana te kino me te pai i roto i te mangai o te Runga Rawa?

39 He aha te tangata ora i amuamu ai, te tangata ina whiua mo ona hara?

40 E rapu tatou, e kimi i o tatou ara, a ka tahuri ano ki a Ihowa.

41 Kia ara atu o tatou ngakau me o tatou ringa ki te Atua i te rangi.

42 I he matou, i whakakeke; kihai ano koe i muru i to matou he.

43 Kua hipokina nei e koe ki te riri, tukinotia ana matou e koe: tukitukia ana e koe, kihai ano i tohungia e koe.

44 Hipokina ana e koe he kapua ki a koe, kei puta atu ta matou inoi.

45 Kua meinga matou e koe hei paru tahinga, hei mea akiri i waenga i nga iwi.

46 Kua hamama mai nga mangai o o matou hoariri katoa ki a matou.

47 Ko te wehi, ko te rua, kua tae mai kei a matou, te whakamoti me te wawahi.

48 Kei te tarere nei nga awa wai i toku kanohi, mo te wawahanga o te tamahine a toku iwi.

49 Maturuturu ana te wai i toku kanohi, kahore hoki e mutu, te ai he pariratanga,

50 Kia titiro mai ra ano a Ihowa, kia kite mai ra ano ia i runga i te rangi.

51 E meatia iho ana toku ngakau e toku kanohi, mo nga tamahine katoa o toku pa.

52 Kua whaia kinotia ahau ano he manu e ratou, e te hunga e hoariri ana ki ahau, kahore he take.

53 Ngaro iho i a ratou toku ara i roto i te poka, kua maka e ratou he kohatu ki runga ki ahau.

54 I rere nga wai i runga i toku mahunga: i mea ahau, kua motuhia ketia ahau.

55 I karanga ahau ki tou ingoa, e Ihowa, i roto i te poka i raro rawa.

56 I rongo koe ki toku reo; kaua e huna tou taringa ki te tanga o toku manawa, ki taku karanga.

57 I whakatata mai koe i te ra i karanga ai ahau ki a koe; i ki mai koe, Kaua e wehi.

58 Kua tohea e koe, e te Ariki, nga tohe a toku wairua; kua hokona e koe toku ora.

59 Kua kite koe, e Ihowa, i te he i mahia ki ahau: mau e whakarite taku whakawa.

60 Kua kite koe i to ratou mauahara katoa, i o ratou whakaaro katoa moku.

61 Kua rongo koe ki ta ratou tawai, e Ihowa, ki o ratou whakaaro katoa moku;

62 Ki nga ngutu o te hunga i whakatika mai ki ahau, ki ta ratou tikanga moku, a pau noa te ra.

63 Tirohia mai to ratou nohoanga iho, to ratou whakatikanga ake; ko ahau te waiatatia nei e ratou.

64 Hoatu he utu ki a ratou, e Ihowa, kia rite ki te mahi a o ratou ringa.

65 Hoatu ki a ratou he ngakau pakeke, tau kanga ki a ratou.

66 Whaia ratou i runga i te riri, whakangaromia atu ratou i raro i nga rangi o Ihowa.