¹¶ He Makiri na Ahapa. E te Atua, he aha i panga ai matou e koe ake ake? He aha i pongere ai tou riri ki nga hipi o tau mara?

¹{An instruction: of Asaph.} Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

²Mahara ki tau whakaminenga i hokona e koe i mua, i utua e koe hei iwi mo tou kainga tupu; a ki tenei Maunga Hiona i nohoia nei e koe.

²Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

³Hiki ake ou waewae ki nga whakangaromanga e mau tonu nei, ki nga mahi kino katoa a te hoariri ki te wahi tapu.

³Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

⁴Kua hamama nei ou hoariri i waenganui i au whakaminenga, kua whakaturia e ratou a ratou kara hei tohu.

⁴Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.

⁵E rite ana ratou ki nga tangata e hapai ana i te titaha ki te puia rakau.

⁵[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

⁶Inaianei ia e tukitukia ana e ratou ona mea whakairo, pakaruhia iho ana ki te titaha, ki te hama.

⁶And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

⁷Kua toua tou wahi tapu ki te kapura, kua noa i a ratou te nohoanga o tou ingoa, kei te whenua e takoto ana.

⁷They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

⁸I mea to ratou ngakau, Me whakangaro ratou a poto ake: kua tahuna e ratou nga whare huihui katoa o te Atua i te whenua.

⁸They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all ùGod's places of assembly in the land.

⁹Kahore matou e kite i o matou tohu, kahore atu he poropiti, kahore hoki tetahi o matou e matau ana kia pehea ake te roa.

⁹We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

¹⁰E te Atua, kia pehea ake te roa o te tawai a te hoariri? Ka kohukohu tonu ranei te hoariri ki tou ingoa ake ake?

¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?

¹¹He aha i pepeke ai tou ringa, tou matau? Unuhia i roto i tou uma, whakamotitia ratou.

¹¹Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].

¹²¶ Ko te Atua ia toku Kingi o tua iho, e mahi whakaora ana i waenganui i te whenua.

¹²But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.

¹³Nau, na tou kaha i wawae te moana: pakaru ana i a koe nga matenga o nga tarakona i nga wai.

¹³*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

¹⁴Mongamonga noa i a koe nga matenga o rewiatana: a hoatu ana ia e koe hei kai ma te iwi o te koraha.

¹⁴*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

¹⁵I wahia e koe te puna me te roma; mimiti ake i a koe nga awa nunui.

¹⁵*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

¹⁶Nau te ao, nau hoki te po; nau i whakarite te marama me te ra.

¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:

¹⁷Nau i whakatu nga rohe katoa o te whenua: te raumati me te hotoke, he mea whakarite ena nau.

¹⁷*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them.

¹⁸¶ Kia mahara ki tenei, kua tawai te hoariri, e Ihowa: kua kohukohu te hunga poauau ki tou ingoa.

¹⁸Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

¹⁹Kaua e tukua te wairua o tau kukupa ki te kirehe: kei wareware ake ake ki te whakaminenga o au rawakore.

¹⁹Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.

²⁰Whakaaroa te kawenata; kua kiki hoki nga wahi pouri o te whenua i nga nohoanga nanakia.

²⁰Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

²¹Kei hoki whakama mai te tangata e tukinotia ana: kia whakamoemititia tou ingoa e te ware, e te rawakore.

²¹Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.

²²E ara, e te Atua, tohea tau tohe: mahara ki ta te tangata poauau tawai ki a koe a pau noa te ra.

²²Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;

²³Kei wareware ki te reo o ou hoariri: e kake tonu ana te ngangau a te hunga e whakatika ana ki a koe.

²³Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.