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."