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

¹Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

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

²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

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

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

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

⁴Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

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

⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

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

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

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

⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

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.

⁸Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”