﻿Waiata.
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Ki te tino kaiwhakatangi. He hīmene, he waiata nā Rāwiri. Kia ara te Atua, kia marara ōna hoariri; kia whati hoki i tōna aroaro te hunga e kino ana ki a ia. 
Āia atu rātou, pērātia me te paowa e āia ana; kia rite ki te ware pī e rewa ana i te kāpura te ngaromanga o te hunga kino i te aroaro o te Atua. 
Kia koa ia te hunga tika kia hari i te aroaro o te Atua; āe rā, kia tino hari pū rātou. 
Waiata ki te Atua, hīmenetia tōna ingoa; opehia ake he huanui mō tana hāriata i ngā koraha – tōna ingoa ko IHA – kia hari hoki ki tōna aroaro. 
Hei matua mō ngā pani, hei kaiwhakarite mō ngā pouaru, te Atua i tōna nohoanga tapu. 
E whakanohoia ana e te Atua te mokemoke ki te whare, e whakaputaina ana e ia ngā herehere ki te ora; ko te hunga tutū ia e noho i te wāhi waikore. 
E te Atua, i tōu haerenga atu i mua i tāu iwi; i tōu haerenga i te koraha; Hera 
i wiri te whenua, i tūturu iho anō ngā rangi i te aroaro o te Atua; me taua Hinai anō i te aroaro o te Atua, o te Atua o Īharaira. 
I tāia mai, e koe, e te Atua, he ua nui; ā, i tōu kāinga e ruwha ana ka whakaūkia e koe. 
I noho tāu whakaminenga ki reira; nā tōu pai, e te Atua, i mea kai ai koe mā ngā rawakore. 
Ka hōmai e Ihowā te kupu; he ope nui ngā wāhine whakapuaki: 
“Whati rawa ngā kīngi o ngā taua!” Ā, ko te wahine i noho i te whare, kei te tuwha i ngā parakete. 
I a koutou ka takoto noa i ngā takotoranga hipi, he rite ki ngā pākau o te kūkupa kua paparuatia nei ki te hiriwa, ōna hou ki te kōura whero. 
I te whakamararatanga a te Kaha Rawa i ngā kīngi i reira, koia anō kei te hukarere o Taramono te mā. 
He maunga Atua a Maunga Pahana; he maunga tiketike a Maunga Pahana. 
He aha koutou ka titiro tītaha ai, e ngā maunga tiketike, ki te maunga i hiahiatia nei e te Atua kia nohoia e ia, āe, ka nohoia e Ihowā ake ake? 
Ko ngā hāriata a te Atua, e rua tekau mano, mano mano iho; kei roto i a rātou te Ariki, me te mea ko Hinai, ko te wāhi tapu. 
Kua kake koe ki runga, kua whakaraua e koe te whakarau; kua riro i a koe he ohaoha mō te tangata; āe, mō te hunga tutū anō, kia noho ai a Ihowā, te Atua ki a rātou. 
Kia whakapaingia te Ariki, e whakawaha nei i tā tātou pīkaunga i tēnei rā, i tēnei rā, te Atua o tō tātou whakaoranga. Hera 
Ko tō tātou Atua te Atua o te whakaoranga; nā Ihowā anō, nā te Ariki, ngā putanga ake i te mate. 
Ka marū ia i te Atua te mātenga o ōna hoariri; me te tumuaki huruhuru o te tangata e haere tonu ana i āna kino. 
I mea te Ariki, “Ka whakahokia mai e ahau i Pahana, ka whakahokia mai e ahau tāku iwi i ngā rire o te moana; 
kia toua ai tōu waewae ki te toto, kia whiwhi ai te arero o āu kurī ki tāna wāhi o ōu hoariri.” 
I kite rātou, e te Atua, i ōu haerenga, i ngā haerenga o tōku Atua, o tōku Kīngi, i te wāhi tapu. 
Ko ngā kaiwaiata i haere i mua, i muri ko ngā kaiwhakatangi, i waenganui ko ngā kōtiro e patupatu ana i ngā timipera. 
“Whakapaingia te Atua i roto i ngā whakaminenga, te Ariki hoki, e ngā mea i puta mai i te mātāpuna o Īharaira!” 
Kei reira a Pineamine, te whakaotinga, tō rātou ariki, ngā rangatira o Hūrā, me tō rātou rōpū, ngā rangatira o Hepurona, me ngā rangatira o Napatari. 
Kua oti he kaha mōu te whakahau iho e tōu Atua; whakaūkia, e te Atua, tāu i mea ai mō mātou. 
Ka maua mai e ngā kīngi he hākari ki a koe, mō tōu temepara i Hiruhārama. 
Rīria te kīrehe o ngā kākaho, te huinga pūru, me ngā kūao kau a ngā iwi, me te takahi i ngā pīhi hiriwa ki raro; whakamararatia ngā iwi e āhuareka ana ki te whāinga. 
E puta mai ngā rangatira i Īhipa; meāke hohoro te totoro o ngā ringa o Etiopia ki te Atua. 
Waiata ki te Atua, e ngā rangatiratanga o te whenua; hīmene ki te Ariki; Hera 
ki a ia, ko tōna hāriata nei ko ngā rangi o ngā rangi, nōnamata; nā, ka puaki tōna reo, he reo kaha. 
Waiho te kaha i te Atua, kei runga nei i a Īharaira tāna mahi rangatira; kei ngā kapua hoki tōna kaha. 
Ka wehingia koe, e te Atua, i roto i ōu wāhi tapu; ko te Atua o Īharaira te kaihōmai i te kaha, i te mana, ki tōna iwi. Whakapaingia te Atua! 
