Waiata 135
1 Whakamoemititia a Ihowa. Whakamoemititia te ingoa o Ihowa; whakamoemititia ia, e nga pononga a Ihowa.
Praise Yahweh! You who (do work for/serve) Yahweh, praise him!
2 E koutou e tu nei i roto i te whare o Ihowa, i nga marae o te whare o to tatou Atua.
You who stand in the temple of Yahweh our God and in the surrounding courtyard, praise him [MTY]!
3 Whakamoemititia a Ihowa; he pai hoki a Ihowa; himene atu ki tona ingoa; he mea ahuareka hoki tena.
Praise Yahweh, because he does good things [for us]; sing to him [MTY], because he is kind [to us].
4 Kua whiriwhiria hoki e Ihowa a Hakopa mana, a Iharaira hei tino taonga mona.
He has chosen [us, the descendants of] Jacob; he has chosen [us] Israelis to belong to him [DOU].
5 E matau ana hoki ahau he nui a Ihowa: kei runga atu hoki to tatou Ariki i nga atua katoa.
I know that Yahweh is great; he is greater than all the gods.
6 Ko nga mea katoa i pai ai a Ihowa, kua oti i a ia, i te rangi, i te whenua, i nga moana, i nga wahi hohonu katoa.
Yahweh does whatever he desires to do, in heaven and on the earth and in the seas/oceans, [down] to the bottom of the seas.
7 Nana i pupu ake ai nga kohu i nga pito o te whenua: i hanga e ia nga uira mo te ua; e whakaputaina mai ana e ia te hau i roto i ona whare taonga.
He is the one who causes clouds to appear from very distant places on the earth; he sends lightning with the rain, and he brings the winds from the places where he stores them.
8 Nana nei i patu nga matamua o Ihipa, a te tangata, a te kararehe;
He is the one who killed [all] the firstborn [males] in Egypt, the firstborn of people and of animals.
9 I tonoa e ia he tohu, he merekara ki waenganui ou, e Ihipa: ki runga ki a Parao ratou ko ana pononga katoa.
There he performed many kinds of miracles [DOU] to punish the king and all his officials.
10 Nana i patu nga iwi maha, i whakamate nga kingi rarahi;
He destroyed many nations and the powerful kings [who ruled them]:
11 A Hihona kingi o nga Amori, a Oka kingi o Pahana, me nga rangatiratanga katoa o Kanaana;
Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, and Og, the king of Bashan [region], and all the other kings in Canaan [land].
12 A homai ana e ia to ratou whenua hei kainga pumau, hei kainga pumau mo Iharaira, mo tana iwi.
Then he gave their land to [us] Israeli people to belong to us [forever].
13 E Ihowa, pumau tonu tou ingoa, me tou maharatanga, e Ihowa, ki nga whakatupuranga katoa.
Yahweh your name will endure forever, and people who are not yet born will remember the great things [that you have done].
14 Ka whakawa hoki a Ihowa mo tana iwi; a ka puta ke tona whakaaro ki ana pononga.
Yahweh, [you] declare that we your people (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and you are merciful to us.
15 He hiriwa, he koura nga whakapakoko a nga tauiwi, he mahi na te ringa tangata.
But the idols that the [other] people-groups [worship] are only [statues made of] silver and gold, things that humans have made.
16 He mangai o ratou, a kahore e korero: he kanohi o ratou, a kahore e kite:
Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say [anything]; they have eyes, but they cannot see [anything].
17 He taringa o ratou, a kahore e rongo: kahore ano he manawa i o ratou mangai.
They have ears, but they cannot hear [anything], and they are not [even able to] breathe.
18 Ka rite ki a ratou te hunga nana ratou i hanga; ae, me nga tangata katoa e whakawhirinaki ana ki a ratou.
The people who make those idols are as [powerless as] those idols, and those who trust in those idols [can accomplish no more than] their idols can!
19 Whakapaingia a Ihowa, e te whare o Iharaira; whakapaingia a Ihowa, e te whare o Arona;
[My fellow] Israelis, praise Yahweh! You [priests] who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
20 Whakapaingia a Ihowa, e te whare o Riwai; whakapaingia a Ihowa, e te hunga katoa e wehi ana i a Ihowa;
You [men] who are descended from Levi, [you who assist the priests], praise Yahweh! [All] you who revere Yahweh, praise him!
21 Kia whakapaingia a Ihowa i roto i Hiona, e noho nei i Hiruharama. Whakapaingia a Ihowa.
Praise Yahweh in [the temple on] Zion [Hill] in Jerusalem, where he lives! Praise Yahweh!
