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1 Ungā e koutou ngā reme
ki te rangatira o te whenua,
i Hera i te koraha,
ki te maunga o te tamāhine a Hiona.
2 Kei te manu hāereere noa hoki,
kei te mea i makā mai i te kōhanga,
i te rite o ngā tamāhine a Moapa
i ngā kauanga i Aranona.
3 “Kia takoto te whakaaro,
whakaritea te whakawā.
Ko tōu whakamarumaru i te poutūmārōtanga
kia rite ki te pō;
hunā te hunga i peia;
kaua te ātiutiu noa e whakaaturia.
4 Tukua āku whati kia noho ki a koe; tēnā ko Moapa,
ko koe hei piringa mō rātou kei mate i te kaipāhua.”
Kua kore hoki te kaiwhakatē,
mutu pū tā te kaipāhua,
kua poto atu ngā kaiwhakatupu kino i runga i te whenua,
5 ā, ka whakapūmautia he torōna i runga i te tohu tangata;
ka nohoia e tētahi i runga i te pono,
i roto anō i te tēneti o Rāwiri;
me te whakawā, me te rapu i te tikanga o te whakawā,
he hohoro hoki ki te mahi i te tika.
6 Kua rongo tātou ki te whakakake o Moapa –
nui atu tōna whakakake, ki tōna whakapehapeha,
ki tōna whakakake, ki tōna pukuriri –
kāhore he tikanga o āna whakamanamana.
7 Mō reira ka auē a Moapa
ki a Moapa, ka auē katoa.
Ka tangi koutou ki ngā keke karepe o Kiriharehete,
kua mōtī rawa.
8 Kua kahakore hoki ngā māra o Hehepona,
me te wāina o Hipima;
he mea whatiwhati nā ngā rangatira o ngā iwi
ōna wāina pai rawa,
i tae nei ki Iatere rawa,
i toro haere atu ki te koraha.
I toha haere ōna peka,
i whiti ki tērā taha o te moana.
9 Mō reira ka tangihia e ahau te wāina o Hipima,
kei te tangi mō Iatere te rite.
Ka whakamākūkū ahau i a koe ki ōku roimata,
e Hehepona, e Ereare;
kua tau hoki te hāmama o te pakanga ki runga ki āu hua raumati,
ki runga ki tāu tapahanga wīti.
10 Kua tangohia atu te hari, me te koa i te māra mōmona;
kāhore hoki he waiata i ngā māra wāina, kāhore he iere harakoa;
e kore ngā kaitakahi e takahi wāina i ā rātou poka wāina;
kua whakamutua e ahau te hāmama o te mahinga wāina.
11 Nā reira, ānō he hāpa ōku whēkau e tangi ana ki a Moapa,
a roto i ahau ki Kiriharehe.
12 Nā, ka puta mai a Moapa,
ka māuiui i runga i te wāhi tiketike,
ā, ka haere ki tōna wāhi tapu īnoi ai,
heoi e kore e taea e ia.
13 Ko te kupu tēnei i kōrerotia e Ihowā mō Moapa i mua. 14 Engari kua kōrero a Ihowā ināianei, kua mea: “Kia toru ngā tau, kia rite ki ngā tau o te kaimahi, ka whakahāweatia te korōria o Moapa, me tōna mano tini; ā, ko te toenga he iti rawa, he kāhore noa iho.”