Jemusi 5
1 Amuze lino, inywe nimuvubide, mulile mulyeeme akambo kamasukusyo aaza kulindinywe.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
2 Buvubi bwenu bwabola, alimwi zisamo zyenu zyavunda ankubi.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Ingolida ansiliva zyenu zyabbulubana alimwi bulala bwazyo bulaba bukamboni butakamukone. Buyolya nyama yenu mbuli mulilo. Mwalondola buvubi bwenu kwamazuba amamamnino.
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
4 Amubone, bulumbu mbomulikujatila basimilimo benu bulikukwila - bulumbu mbumwakajatila abo basikumutebwida myuunda yenu. Kukwiila kwa basikutebula kwamvwikka kumatwi a Mwami wabasikuswayigwa.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
5 Mwakkala mububotu bwebesi aansi alimwi mwalyokezya. Mwalinenesya myoyo kuti kuzobote buzuba bwakujayigwa.
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6 Mwapa mulandu alimwi akujaya muntu musalali. Takwe naamulwana pe.
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
7 Nkinkako amube amoyo mulamfu, kwalino, nobakwesu, mane kukuboola kwa Mwami. Mubone mulimi mbwalindila muchelo mubotu kuzwa munyika alimwi uli amoyo mulamfu kukuulindila, mane do kuwa kwemvula ntaanzi ayamelelezyo.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
8 Anywebo amukkazike myoyo yenu. Amusimye myoyo yenu nkambo kuboola kwa Mwami kwaba afwifwi.
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Tamutongawuki, nobakwesu, akuzwangaana chenuchenu, kjti tamukajanwi amulandu. Amubone, mubetesi alimwi amulyango.
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
10 Amujane chikozyanisyo, nobakwesu, kuzwa kukoomba akulansya moyo kwabasinsimi, aabo bakaambula muzina lya Mwami.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Mubone, twamba kuti aabo bakawunduzya machise balilongezezegwe. Mwakamvwa Jobo mbakapengeleka, alimwi mulizi machitilo a Mwami, mbasalazizya moyo ansoni zyakwe.
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
12 Atala azyonse, nobakwesu, mutakonki, nikuba kwaana ejulu kana nyika, kana nikuba ichili zwecho chikonke. Anukuti, amwambe “Iyii” wenu awambe “Iyii” alimwi “Pepe” awambe “Pepe,” kuchitila kuti tamukanjili mukubetekwa.
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear—not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.
13 Kuli umwi na akati kenu ulikoomba mubuyumuyumu? Ngakkombe. Kuli uli alumwemwe na? Ngayimbe ntembawuzyo.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
14 Kuli umwi uchisidwe na akati kenu? Ngayite bapati bembungano, alimwi ngabamukombele. Abamunanike mafuta muzina lya Mwami.
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
15 Ikukomba kwalusyomo kulamuponia muntu uuchiswa, alimwi Mwami ulamubusya. Kuti kali wakachita zibi, Leza ulamulekelela.
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16 Nkinkaako amulyaambe izibi zyenu kuli umwi awumwi, alimwi mukombelane, kuchitila kuti muponesegwe. Inkombyo yamuntu musalali ili anguzu loko kumabelekelo ayo.
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
17 Elayija wakali mwalumi mbuli ndiswe, wakakomba chakasimpe kuti imvula itawi, alimwi teyakawa kubusena oobo kwamyaka yotatwe amyezi musanu awumwi.
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
18 Mpawo Elayija wakakomba lubo. Imajulu akapa imvula, alimwi inyika yakazyala michelo yaayo.
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19 Nobakwesu, kuti umwi akati kenu wasweka kukasimpe, alimwi umwi wamuboozya,
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
20 Ooyo muntu welede kuziba kuti kufumbwa muntu uboozya sizibi kuzwa kubulewusi bwanzila yakwe uyomuvuna kuzwa kulufu, alimwi uyovumba mweelwe mupati wazibi.
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
