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He Tangi mō te Whakaoranga mai i te Pēhinga
Ki te tino kaiwhakatangi. Hohanimi. Nā Rāwiri.
Whakaorangia ahau e te Atua,
ka tae mai hoki ngā wai ki roto ki tōku wairua.
Ka tapoko ahau ki te oru hōhonu,
ki te wāhi kāhore nei he tūnga;
kua tae ahau ki ngā wai hōhonu,
ngaro iho ahau i ngā waipuke.
Kua ruwha ahau i tāku tangi;
kua maroke tōku korokoro.
Pakoko kau ōku kanohi i ahau
e tatari nei ki tōku Atua.
 
Tini kē i ngā makawe o tōku mātenga
te hunga e kino noa ana ki ahau;
he kaha rawa te hunga e mauāhara noa ana ki ahau,
e mea nei kia whakamatea ahau.
Utua ana e ahau i reira
ngā mea kīhai i tangohia e ahau.
E te Atua, e mātau ana koe ki tōku kūware;
kāhore hoki ōku hē e ngaro i a koe.
 
E te Ariki, e Ihowā o ngā mano
kaua te hunga e tatari ana ki a koe e whakamā i ahau;
e te Atua o Īharaira,
kei numinumi kau i ahau
te hunga e rapu ana i a koe.
Mōu hoki ahau i waiho ai hei tāwainga;
ngaro iho tōku mata i te whakamā.
He tangata kē ahau ki ōku hoa ake;
hei tautangata ki ngā tama a tōku whaea.
 
Ka pau hoki ahau i te aroha ki tōu whare;
kua tau anō ki ahau ngā tāwai a te hunga e tāwai ana ki a koe.
10 I ahau i tangi, i whakatiki hei whiu i tōku wairua,
ka waiho tēnā hei tāwainga mōku.
11 I kākahu hoki ahau i te kākahu taratara mōku,
ā, i waiho hei whakatauki mā rātou.
12 Kei te kōrero kino mōku te hunga e noho ana i te kūwaha;
waiatatia ana ahau e te hunga haurangi wāina.
 
13 Ko ahau ia, ki a koe tāku īnoi, e Ihowā,
i te wā e manakohia ai;
whakahokia mai he kupu ki ahau, e te Atua,
i runga i te nui o tōu aroha,
o te pono o tāu whakaoranga.
14 Whakaorangia ahau i roto i te oru,
kei toremi;
kia ora ahau i te hunga e kino ana ki ahau,
i ngā wai hōhonu anō hoki.
15 Kei ngaro ahau i te waipuke,
kei horomia e te rire;
kei kopia anō te waha o te poka ki runga ki ahau.
 
16 E Ihowā whakahokia mai he kupu ki ahau;
he pai hoki tōu atawhai:
tahuri mai ki ahau, kia rite ki te nui o āu arohatanga.
17 Ā, kaua e hunā tōu mata ki tāu pononga;
e pōuri ana hoki ahau:
hohoro te whakahoki kupu mai ki ahau.
18 Whakatata mai ki tōku wairua, hokona;
whakaorangia ahau, e mahi nei ōku hoariri.
 
19 E mātau ana koe ki tōku tāwainga,
ki tōku whakamā, ki tōku numinumi;
tōu aroaro ōku hoariri katoa.
20 Marū noa tōku ngākau i te tāwai;
ā, kī tonu ahau i te pōuri;
i titiro ahau ki tētahi hei aroha mai, ā, kore ake;
ki ētahi hei whakamārie, ā, kīhai i kitea.
21 I hōmai he au hei kai māku;
i tōku matewaitanga anō i whakainumia ahau ki te winika.
 
22 Kia meinga tā rātou tēpu i tō rātou aroaro hei māhanga;
hei rore hoki i tō rātou wā rangimārie.
23 Kia whakapōuritia ō rātou kanohi, kei kite rātou;
kia wiri tonu hoki ō rātou hope.
24 Ringihia atu tōu riri ki runga ki a rātou,
kia mau hoki rātou i tōu ārita, i tōu weriweri.
25 Kia ururuatia tō rātou nohoanga;
kaua tētahi e noho ki ō rātou tēneti.
26 Mō rātou i tūkino i te tangata i whiua nei e koe;
ā, kōrerotia ana e rātou te pōuri o te hunga i werohia e koe.
27 Tāpiritia he kino ki runga ki tō rātou kino;
kaua hoki rātou e tukua kia tomo ki tōu tika.
28 Kia murua atu rātou i te pukapuka o te ora,
kaua anō e tuhituhia ki roto ki te hunga tika.
29 Ko ahau ia, he rawakore, he pōuri;
kia whakateiteitia ake ahau, e te Atua, e tāu whakaoranga.
 
30 Ka whakamoemiti tāku waiata ki te ingoa o te Atua,
ka whakanui anō tāku whakawhetai i a ia.
31 Pai rawa tēnei ki a Ihowā i te pūru,
i te kau, i te mea whai haona, whai maikuku.
32 Kua kite te hunga māhaki, kua hari;
ka ora anō ō koutou ngākau,
e te hunga e rapu nei i te Atua.
33 Nō te mea ka rongo a Ihowā ki ngā rawakore,
e kore anō e whakahāwea ki āna herehere.
 
34 Kia whakamoemiti te rangi me te whenua ki a ia,
ngā moana, me ngā mea katoa e tere ana i roto.
35 Nō te mea tērā e whakaorangia e te Atua a Hiona,
ka hangā anō e ia ngā pā o Hūrā;
ā, ka noho rātou ki reira, ka riro hoki a reira i a rātou;
36 ā, ka nohoia a reira e ngā uri o āna pononga;
hei kāinga tupu anō a reira mō te hunga e aroha ana ki tōna ingoa.