Psalms 74
1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
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?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelt.
Mahara 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.
3 Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Hiki ake ou waewae ki nga whakangaromanga e mau tonu nei, ki nga mahi kino katoa a te hoariri ki te wahi tapu.
4 your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Kua hamama nei ou hoariri i waenganui i au whakaminenga, kua whakaturia e ratou a ratou kara hei tohu.
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
E rite ana ratou ki nga tangata e hapai ana i te titaha ki te puia rakau.
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Inaianei ia e tukitukia ana e ratou ona mea whakairo, pakaruhia iho ana ki te titaha, ki te hama.
7 They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
Kua toua tou wahi tapu ki te kapura, kua noa i a ratou te nohoanga o tou ingoa, kei te whenua e takoto ana.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
I mea to ratou ngakau, Me whakangaro ratou a poto ake: kua tahuna e ratou nga whare huihui katoa o te Atua i te whenua.
9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Kahore matou e kite i o matou tohu, kahore atu he poropiti, kahore hoki tetahi o matou e matau ana kia pehea ake te roa.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
E te Atua, kia pehea ake te roa o te tawai a te hoariri? Ka kohukohu tonu ranei te hoariri ki tou ingoa ake ake?
11 Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
He aha i pepeke ai tou ringa, tou matau? Unuhia i roto i tou uma, whakamotitia ratou.
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Ko te Atua ia toku Kingi o tua iho, e mahi whakaora ana i waenganui i te whenua.
13 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Nau, na tou kaha i wawae te moana: pakaru ana i a koe nga matenga o nga tarakona i nga wai.
14 You brake the heads of leviathan (sea serpent) in pieces, and gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Mongamonga noa i a koe nga matenga o rewiatana: a hoatu ana ia e koe hei kai ma te iwi o te koraha.
15 You did cleave the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
I wahia e koe te puna me te roma; mimiti ake i a koe nga awa nunui.
16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
Nau te ao, nau hoki te po; nau i whakarite te marama me te ra.
17 You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
Nau i whakatu nga rohe katoa o te whenua: te raumati me te hotoke, he mea whakarite ena nau.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Kia mahara ki tenei, kua tawai te hoariri, e Ihowa: kua kohukohu te hunga poauau ki tou ingoa.
19 O deliver not the soul of your turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
Kaua e tukua te wairua o tau kukupa ki te kirehe: kei wareware ake ake ki te whakaminenga o au rawakore.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Whakaaroa te kawenata; kua kiki hoki nga wahi pouri o te whenua i nga nohoanga nanakia.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
Kei hoki whakama mai te tangata e tukinotia ana: kia whakamoemititia tou ingoa e te ware, e te rawakore.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
E ara, e te Atua, tohea tau tohe: mahara ki ta te tangata poauau tawai ki a koe a pau noa te ra.
23 Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.
Kei wareware ki te reo o ou hoariri: e kake tonu ana te ngangau a te hunga e whakatika ana ki a koe.
