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He Waiata Wikitōria nā Hūrā
1 I taua rā ka waiatatia tēnei waiata i te whenua o Hūrā:
He pā kaha tō tātou:
ka whakaritea e ia te whakaora hei taiepa,
hei pekerangi.
2 Whakatuwheratia ngā kūwaha,
kia tomo mai ai
te iwi tika e pupuri ana i te pono.
3 Māu e pupuri i runga i te rangimārie rawa –
te tangata e ū ana te whakaaro ki a koe;
nāna hoki i whakawhirinaki ki a koe.
4 Whakawhirinaki ki a Ihowā ā ake ake,
nō te mea kei te Ariki, kei a Ihowā,
he kāmaka mau tonu.
5 Kua whakahokia iho hoki e ia
te hunga e noho ana i runga,
te pā tiketike; takoto rawa i a ia,
takoto rawa ki te whenua,
pā rawa ki te puehu.
6 Takahia iho e te waewae,
e ngā waewae o ngā rawakore,
e ngā takahanga o ngā ware.
7 Ko te ara o te tangata tika, he tika;
e whakatikaia ana e koe, e te mea tika, te ara o te tangata tika.
8 Kei te ara nei anō mātou o āu whakaritenga
e tatari ana ki a koe, e Ihowā;
ko tōu ingoa, ko te mahara ki a koe
tā ō mātou wairua e minamina nei.
9 Minamina tonu ahau, tōku ngākau, ki a koe i te pō;
āe rā, ka moata ahau, tōku wairua, ki te rapu i a koe.
Nō te mea i ngā wā e puta ai āu whakaritenga ki te whenua,
ka ākona te tika e ngā tāngata o te ao.
10 Atawhaitia iho te tangata kino,
e kore ia e ako i te tika;
i te whenua o te tika ka hē tāna mahi,
e kore anō ia e kite i te nui o Ihowā.
11 E Ihowā, kua ara tōu ringa ki runga,
heoi kāhore rātou e kite.
Otiia, ka kite rātou i tōu hae mō te iwi, ā, ka whakamā;
āe rā, mā te ahi e kai ōu hoariri.
12 Ka whakaritea e koe, e Ihowā, he rangimārie mō mātou,
nāu nei hoki i mahi ā mātou mahi katoa mā mātou.
13 E Ihowā, e tō mātou Atua,
he ariki kē anō, i tua ake i a koe, i noho hei rangatira mō mātou;
māu anake ia mātou ka mahara ai ki tōu ingoa.
14 Kua mate rātou, e kore e ora;
he tūpāpaku rātou, e kore e ara –
nā, kua tirohia nei rātou e koe, ngaro iho i a koe,
hunā katoatia ana e koe te mahara ki a rātou.
15 Kua whakaraneatia e koe te iwi, e Ihowā,
kua whakaraneatia e koe te iwi.
Kua whai korōria koe;
nāu i whakanui ngā rohe katoa o te whenua.
16 E Ihowā, i te rarurarutanga i haere atu rātou ki a koe,
ā, i ringihia atu e rātou he īnoi,
i te mea e papaki ana koe i a rātou.
17 He pērā i te wahine hapū,
ka tata ia te whānau,
e whakamamae ana, e auē ana i ōna mamae;
ko tō mātou rite tērā i tōu aroaro, e Ihowā;
18 i te hapū mātou, i te mamae mātou,
kua whānau tā mātou me te mea he hau.
Kīhai i oti i a mātou he whakaora i runga i te whenua;
kīhai anō hoki i hinga ngā tāngata o te ao.
19 Ka ora ōu tāngata mate;
ka ara ōku tinana mate,
Maranga, waiata,
e te hunga kei te puehu nei tō koutou kāinga;
nō te mea kei te tōmairangi o ngā otaota te rite o tōu tōmairangi;
ā, ka makā mai ngā tūpāpaku e te whenua.
20 Haere, e tōku iwi, e tomo ki roto ki ōu rūma,
tūtakina ōu tatau i muri i a koe;
e piri, he wāhi iti kau nei,
kia pahemo rā anō te riri.
21 Nō te mea tēnei a Ihowā te puta nei i tōna wāhi
ki te whiu i te hē o ngā tāngata o te whenua;
ā, ka whakakitea ōna toto e te whenua;
e kore anō e hīpokina e ia i muri nei tōna hunga i patua.