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Te Īnoi a te Tangata Pono
He īnoi nā Rāwiri.
1 Whakarongo ki te tika, e Ihowā, tahuri mai ki tāku karanga,
kia tītaha mai tōu taringa ki tāku īnoi,
arā ki tā te ngutu tinihangakore.
2 Kia puta mai te whakaritenga o tāku whakawā i tōu aroaro;
tirohia mai e ōu kanohi te mea rite.
3 Kua whakamātauria e koe tōku ngākau;
kua tirotirohia iho ahau e koe i te pō;
kua whakamātau koe i ahau, ā, kāhore he mea i kitea e koe;
e mea ana ahau kia kaua e hara tōku māngai.
4 Ko ngā mahi ia a te tangata, ko ngā kupu a tōu māngai
tāku mea hei pā mai i ahau i ngā ara o te kaiwhakangaro.
5 I whakaūkia ōku hīkoinga ki āu ara,
kīhai i paheke ōku waewae.
6 Kua karanga nei ahau ki a koe,
nō te mea ka whakahoki kupu mai koe, e te Atua, ki ahau;
whakatītahatia mai tōu taringa ki ahau,
whakarongo ki tāku kupu.
7 Whakaaturia tōu aroha whakamīharo, ko koe hoki, ko tōu matau,
te kaiwhakaora mō te hunga e whakawhirinaki ana ki a koe,
i te hunga e whakatika mai ana.
8 Tiakina ahau, ānō ko te whatu o te kanohi,
hunā ahau ki raro i te taumarumarutanga o ōu pākau,
9 i te hunga kino e tūkino nei i ahau,
i ōku hoariri whakamate e karapoti nei i ahau.
10 E kōpakia ana rātou e ō rātou ngako;
e kōrero whakapehapeha ana ō rātou māngai.
11 Tēnei ō mātou hīkoinga te karapotia nei e rātou;
matatau tonu iho ō rātou kanohi ki te tuku iho i a mātou ki te whenua.
12 Kei te raiona e hiahia ana ki te hopu kai te rite,
kei te kūao raiona e piri ana i ngā wāhi ngaro.
13 E ara, e Ihowā, haukotia tōna aroaro, turakina ia ki raro;
whakaorangia tōku wairua ki tāu hoari i te tangata kino;
14 i ngā tāngata, mā tōu ringa, e Ihowā,
i ngā tāngata o te ao.
Kei tēnei ora nei tō rātou wāhi,
ā, e whakakīia ana ō rātou kōpū e koe ki tāu taonga.
E kikī ana rātou i te tamariki,
whakarērea iho ngā toenga o ā rātou taonga
ki ā rātou kōhungahunga.
15 Ko ahau, e kite ahau i tōu mata i runga i te tika,
ā, ka tatū tōku ngākau,
ina oho ake ahau, kia kite i tōu āhua.