¹¶ I te taha o nga wai o Papurona, noho ana tatou i reira, ae, tangi ana tatou, ia tatou i mahara ai ki Hiona.

¹By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

²Whakairia ake e tatou a tatou hapa ki runga ki nga wirou i waenganui o reira.

²We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

³No te mea i tono i reira te hunga nana tatou i herehere ki etahi waiata i a tatou, me te hunga nana tatou i tukino i tono mai he hari i a tatou, i mea mai, Waiatatia mai ki a matou tetahi o nga waiate o Hiona.

³For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail [required] mirth, [saying,] Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

⁴Me pehea matou ka waiata ai i te waiata a Ihowa i te whenua tauhou?

⁴How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?

⁵Ki te wareware ahau ki a koe, e Hiruharama, kia wareware toku ringa matau ki tana mahi.

⁵If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill];

⁶Ki te kore ahau e mahara ki a koe, kia piri toku arero ki toku ngao; ki te kore ahau e whakanui i Hiruharama ki runga ake i taku mea i tino hari ai.

⁶If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

⁷¶ E Ihowa, maharatia nga tama a Eroma i te ra o Hiruharama; ta ratou meatanga, Whakahoroa, whakahoroa, a taea rawatia ano tona turanga.

⁷Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, Lay [it] bare, Lay [it] bare, down to its foundation!

⁸E te tamahine o Papurona, meake nei whakangaromia, ka hari te tangata e utua ai koe mo tau i mea ai ki a matou.

⁸Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.

⁹Ka hari te tangata e hopu ana, e ta ana i au mea nohinohi ki runga ki te kohatu.

⁹Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.