Waiata 45

He Waiata Mārena mō te Kīngi

Ki te tino kaiwhakatangi. He Hohanimi mā ngā tama a Koraha. He Makiri, he waiata aroha.

1 E pupuke ake ana te mea pai i roto i tōku ngākau;

ka kōrerotia e ahau āku i tito ai mō te kīngi;

he pene tōku arero nā te kaituhituhi hohoro.

2 Engari koe he ātaahua i ngā tama a te tangata;

kua ringihia ōu ngutu ki te āhuareka;

nā reira i manaakitia ai koe e te Atua ake ake.

3 Whītikiria tāu hoari ki tōu hūwhā, e te Nui Rawa,

tōu korōria me tōu hōnore.

4 Aratakina hoki tōu hōiho i runga i tōu hōnore, i te kaha,

hei mea hoki mō te pono, mō te māhaki, mō te tika,

ā, mā tōu matau koe e whakaako ki ngā mea whakamataku.

5 He koi āu pere; ka hinga ngā iwi ki raro i a koe;

kei roto rātou i te ngākau o ngā hoariri o te kīngi.

6 He pūmau, e te Atua, tōu torōna ake ake;

he hēpeta tika te hēpeta o tōu kīngitanga.

7 Kua aroha koe ki te tika, kua kino ki te hara;

nā reira, nui atu i tō ōu hoa te whakawahinga a te Atua,

a tōu Atua i a koe ki te hinu o te hari.

8 Ko tōu kākahu katoa he kakara maira, he aroe, he kahia.

Ko ngā mea aho, whakatangitangi o ngā whare rei

nāna koe i whakaahuareka.

9 Kei roto i āu wāhine hōnore ngā tamāhine kīngi;

kei tōu matau te kuīni e tū ana, nō Ōpira te kōura.

10 Whakarongo, e kō, titiro, tahuri iho tōu taringa;

ā, kia wareware koe ki tōu iwi, ki te whare anō o tōu pāpā.

11 Pēnei ka matenuitia e te kīngi tōu ātaahua;

ko ia hoki tōu Ariki; ā, me koropiko ki a ia.

12 Ko reira anō te tamāhine o Tāira me te ohaoha;

ka whai anō ngā tāngata taonga o te iwi kia manakohia e koe.

13 Kei roto te tamāhine a te kīngi, he korōria kau,

he mea whakairo ki te kōura tōna kākahu.

14 He mea whakapaipai ki te ngira tōna kākahu e kawea ai ia ki te kīngi;

ka ārahina ki a koe ngā wāhina,

ōna takahoa e whai ana i a ia.

15 He hari, he koa ina kawea mai rātou;

ka tomo ki te whare o te kīngi.

16 Ko āu tamariki hei whakakapi mō ōu mātua;

ka meinga anō rātou e koe hei kāwana mō te whenua katoa.

17 Ka meinga e ahau tōu ingoa kia maharatia e ngā whakatupuranga katoa;

e whakamoemititia ai koe e ngā iwi ā ake ake.