Yakobo 5
1 Hinu myuwanila nyenye muvi na vindu vyamahele! Mvemba na kuwombeleza ndava ya mang'ahiso gegakuvabwelela.
Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that [are] coming upon [you].
2 Vindu vinu viwolili, na nyula zinu zimeminwi na makele.
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
3 Zahabu na feza yinu na zimeli chilali. Na chilali chenicho yati yivya ulangisu winu, Yene yati yilya higa yinu ngati motu. Nyenye muvili vindu mumagono ago ga mwishu.
Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in [the] last days.
4 Mlola! Mwangavalipa luhuna vanalihengu vevahengili lihengu mumigunda yinu. Myuwanila kulungamika kwavi. BAMBU Chapanga mweavi na makakala ayuwini kuvemba kwavi.
Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of [the] Lord of sabaoth.
5 Mtamii pamulima kwa kugana kujisangalusa neju. Mjikulupalisi mwavene ngati ng'ombi cheyikulupili changali kumanya ligono la kuhinjwa.
Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts [as] in a day of slaughter;
6 Muvahamwili na kuvakoma vandu vangavabela!
ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.
7 Hinu, valongo vangu, mlindila mbaka BAMBU peibwela. Mlola mlimaji cheilindila mbeyu yeamiji pandima muni abena mabenu gabwina. Mwene ilindila kwa kukangamala fula za kutumbula mbaka za mwishu.
Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive [the] early and [the] latter rain.
8 Na nyenye mewa mganikiwa kuvya na usindimala, mkangamalisa mitima yinu, ndava ligono la kubwela kwaki BAMBU luvi papipi.
Ye also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
9 Valongo vangu, mkoto kung'ung'utilana mwavene. Mkoto kuhamuliwa na Chapanga, yula Mweihamula avi papipi kuyingila pa mlyangu.
Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
10 Valongo vangu, muvakumbuka vamlota va Chapanga vevajobvili kwa liina la BAMBU, muni kuvya luhumu lwa kukangamala mukung'ahika.
Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the] Lord.
11 Tikuvakemela avo vana vamotisiwi muni vasindimili. Myuwini Ayubu cheasindimili, na mmanyili ndi BAMBU chamhengili mbaka pamwishu. Muni BAMBU amemili lipyana na ubwina.
Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.
12 Neju pa genago goha, valongo vangu, mkoto kulapa kwa kunani kwa Chapanga, amala kwa mulima, amala kwa chindu chingi chochoha. Mjova “Ena” ngati mana yinu ena, na “Lepi” ngati mana yinu ndi lepi, na penapo yati mwihamuliwa lepi na Chapanga.
But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.
13 Wu, kuna mundu yoyoha pagati yinu ana mang'ahiso? Iganikiwa kumuyupa Chapanga. Wu, avili mwana luheku? Iganikiwa kuyimba nyimbu za kulumba.
Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.
14 Wu avi mweavi na utamu pagati yinu? Iganikiwa kuvakemela vagogo va msambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Chapanga, ndi yati vakumyupila na kumnyala mahuta kwa liina la BAMBU.
Is any sick among you? let him call to [him] the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of [the] Lord;
15 Vakayupa kwa sadika mtamu yati ilamiswa, BAMBU yati akumlamisa na kumbudila kwaki Chapanga yati kulekekeswa.
and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he be one who has committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.
16 Hinu, mjovelana nyenye kwa nyenye kubuda kwinu na myupilana muni mlamiswayi. Luyupu lwa mundu mbwina luna makakala ga kukita gamahele.
Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. [The] fervent supplication of the righteous [man] has much power.
17 Eliya avi mundu ngati tete. Ayupili kwa kukangamala fula yikoto kutonya ndi yatonyili lepi pamulima miyaka yidatu na miehi sita.
Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;
18 Ayupili kavili, fula yatonyili na mulima wapambiki mabenu gaki.
and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to spring forth.
19 Valongo vangu mmonga akayaga ndava ya uchakaka, na mundu yungi akamuwuyisa,
My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,
20 manya kuvya mundu mwenuyo mwakumuwuyisa kumbudila Chapanga kuhuma munjila zaki zihakau, yati akumsangula mundu mwenuyo kuhuma mulifwa, na yati akumkita Chapanga amuwusila kubuda kwaki kwamahele.
let him know that he that brings back a sinner from [the] error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.
