¹A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,

¹¶ He waiata; he pikitanga. He ki tenei ma Iharaira, Ka maha a ratou tukinotanga i ahau o toku tamarikitanga ake;

²Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.

²Ka maha a ratou tukinotanga i ahau o toku tamarikitanga ake; heoi kihai ahau i taea e ratou.

³The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.

³I parautia toku tuara e nga kaiparau; he roa a ratou parautanga.

⁴Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁴He tika ta Ihowa: motu pu i a ia nga aho a te hunga kino.

⁵Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

⁵¶ Kia whakama, kia whakahokia ki muri, te hunga katoa e kino nei ki Hiona.

⁶Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

⁶Kia rite ratou ki te tarutaru i nga tuanui, e memenge nei i te mea kiano i tupu ake.

⁷Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

⁷E kore nei e ki te ringa o te kaikoti, te uma hoki o te kaipaihere.

⁸Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah.

⁸E kore ano te hunga e haere ana i te taha e mea, Kia tau ki a koutou te manaaki a Ihowa: ko ta matou manaaki tenei ki a koutou i runga i te ingoa o Ihowa.