Psalms 129

1 A song of degrees. They haue often times afflicted me from my youth (may Israel nowe say)

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

2 They haue often times afflicted me from my youth: but they could not preuaile against me.

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

3 The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.

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

4 But the righteous Lord hath cut the cordes of the wicked.

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

5 They that hate Zion, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.

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

6 They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth.

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

7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap:

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

8 Neither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you, or, We blesse you in the Name of the Lord.

E 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.