1 Ko ahau te tangata kua kite i te pōuri,

he mea nā te rākau o tōna riri.

2 I ārahina e ia, i meinga kia haere i te pōuri,

kāhore i te mārama.

3 He pono kua tahuri mai ia ki ahau,

kua anga mai tōna ringa ki ahau, ā pau noa te rā.

4 Kua meinga nei e ia ōku kikokiko me tōku kiri kia rite ki ō te koroheke,

mangungu kau i a ia ōku wheua.

5 Kua hangā e ia he patu mōku;

karapotia ana ahau ki te wai kawa, ki te raruraru.

6 Kua meinga ahau e ia kia noho ki ngā wāhi pōuri,

kia pērā me te hunga kua mate noa ake.

7 Kua oti ahau te taiepa mai e ia, tē puta atu ahau;

kua meinga e ia tōku mekameka kia taimaha.

8 Āe rā, i ahau e karanga ana, e hāmama ana kia āwhinatia,

ka āraia mai e ia tāku īnoi.

9 Kua oti anō ōku ara te taiepa mai e ia ki te kōhatu tārai,

whakakōpikopikoa ake e ia ōku ara.

10 Ko tōna rite ki ahau kei te pea e whanga ana,

kei te raiona i ngā wāhi ngaro.

11 Whakangaua kētia ana e ia ōku ara, haehaea pūtia iho ahau;

meinga ana ahau e ia kia noho kau noa iho.

12 Kua whakapikoa e ia tāna kōpere,

ā, whakatūria ake ahau e ia hei kōperenga pere.

13 Kua meinga e ia ngā pere o tāna papa pere

kia ngoto ki ōku whatumanawa.

14 Kua waiho ahau hei katanga mā tōku iwi katoa;

hei waiata mā rātou ā pau noa te rā.

15 Kua whakakīia ahau e ia ki ngā mea kawa,

whakainumia rawatia ana ahau e ia ki te taru kawa.

16 Kua whatiwhatiia anō hoki e ia ōku niho ki te kirikiri,

hīpokina ana ahau e ia ki te pungarehu.

17 Kua nekehia atu e koe tōku wairua kei tata ki te rangimārie;

i wareware ahau ki te pai.

18 Kī tonu ake ahau, "Kua pirau tōku kaha,

kāhore he tūmanakohanga māku ki a Ihowā."

19 Mahara ki tōku ngākau mamae, ki tōku pōuri,

ki te taru kawa, ki te wai kawa!

20 Māharahara tonu tōku wairua ki a rātou,

piko tonu iho i roto i ahau.

21 E whakahokia ake ana tēnei e ahau ki tōku ngākau,

koia i tūmanako ai ahau.

22 He mahi tohu nā Ihowā tē poto ai tātou,

he kore nō āna mahi aroha e mutu.

23 E hou tonu ana rātou i tēnei ata, i tēnei ata;

he nui tōu pono.

24 "Ko Ihowā te wāhi mōku," e ai tā tōku wairua;

"nō reira ka tūmanako ahau ki a ia."

25 He pai a Ihowā ki te hunga e tūmanako ana ki a ia,

ki te wairua e rapu ana i a ia.

26 He pai anō kia tūmanako te tangata,

kia tatari mārie hoki ki tā Ihowā whakaora.

27 He pai anō mō te tangata kia amohia e ia

te ioka i tōna tamarikitanga.

28 Me noho ia, tōna kotahi, me whakarongo puku hoki,

nō te mea nāna i uta ki a ia.

29 Me tuku e ia tōna māngai ki te puehu;

mehemea pea tērā he tūmanakohanga.

30 Me hoatu e ia tōna pāpāringa ki te tangata e papaki ana i a ia;

kia kī tonu ia i te tāwai.

31 E kore hoki e mau tonu

tā Ihowā panga.

32 Ahakoa whakapōuri ia, ka aroha anō ia,

ka rite ki te nui o tāna mahi tohu.

33 Kāhore hoki ōna ngākau whiu,

whakapōuri rānei, i ngā tama a te tangata.

34 Ko te kuru i ngā herehere katoa o te whenua

ki raro i ōna waewae;

35 ko te whakapeau kē i te tika o te tangata ina whakawākia

i te aroaro o te Runga Rawa;

36 ko te whakariro kē i tā te tangata ina totohe,

e kore tēnā e whakapaingia e te Ariki.

37 Ko wai tēnei hei kī mai, ā, ka oti,

i te mea kīhai i whakahaua e te Ariki?

38 He teka ianei e puta mai ana te kino me te pai

i roto i te māngai o te Runga Rawa?

39 He aha te tangata ora i amuamu ai,

te tangata ina whiua mō ōna hara?

40 E rapu tātou, e kimi i ō tātou ara,

ā, ka tahuri anō ki a Ihowā.

41 Kia ara atu ō tātou ngākau me ō tātou ringa

ki te Atua i te rangi.

42 I hē mātou, i whakakeke;

kīhai anō koe i muru i tō mātou hē.

43 Kua hīpokina nei e koe ki te riri, tūkinotia ana mātou e koe;

tukitukia ana e koe, kīhai anō i tohungia e koe.

44 Hīpokina ana e koe he kapua ki a koe,

kei puta atu tā mātou īnoi.

45 Kua meinga mātou e koe hei paru tāhinga,

hei mea ākiri i waenga i ngā iwi.

46 Kua hāmama mai ngā māngai

o ō mātou hoariri katoa ki a mātou.

47 Ko te wehi, ko te rua, kua tae mai kei a mātou,

te whakamōtī me te wāwāhi.

48 Kei te tārere nei ngā awa wai i tōku kanohi,

mō te wawāhanga o te tamāhine a tōku iwi.

49 Māturuturu ana te wai i tōku kanohi,

kāhore hoki e mutu, tē ai he pārīrātanga,

50 kia titiro mai rā anō a Ihowā,

kia kite mai rā anō ia i runga i te rangi.

51 E meatia iho ana tōku ngākau e tōku kanohi,

mō ngā tamāhine katoa o tōku pā.

52 Kua whāia kinotia ahau ānō he manu e rātou,

e te hunga e hoariri ana ki ahau, kāhore he take.

53 Ngaro iho i a rātou tōku ara i roto i te poka,

kua makā e rātou he kōhatu ki runga ki ahau.

54 I rere ngā wai i runga i tōku māhunga;

i mea ahau, "Kua motuhia kētia ahau."

55 I karanga ahau ki tōu ingoa, e Ihowā,

i roto i te poka i raro rawa.

56 I rongo koe ki tōku reo; "Kaua e hunā tōu taringa

ki te tānga o tōku manawa, ki tāku karanga."

57 I whakatata mai koe i te rā i karanga ai ahau ki a koe;

i kī mai koe, "Kaua e wehi."

58 Kua tohea e koe, e te Ariki, ngā tohe a tōku wairua;

kua hokona e koe tōku ora.

59 Kua kite koe, e Ihowā, i te hē i mahia ki ahau.

Māu e whakarite tāku whakawā.

60 Kua kite koe i tō rātou mauāhara katoa,

i ō rātou whakaaro katoa mōku.

61 Kua rongo koe ki tā rātou tāwai, e Ihowā,

ki ō rātou whakaaro katoa mōku;

62 ki ngā ngutu o te hunga i whakatika mai ki ahau,

ki tā rātou tikanga mōku, ā pau noa te rā.

63 Tirohia mai tō rātou nohoanga iho, tō rātou whakatikanga ake;

ko ahau te waiatatia nei e rātou.

64 Hoatu he utu ki a rātou, e Ihowā,

kia rite ki te mahi a ō rātou ringa.

65 Hoatu ki a rātou he ngākau pakeke,

tāu kanga ki a rātou.

66 Whāia rātou i runga i te riri, whakangaromia atu rātou

i raro i ngā rangi o Ihowā.