Yakobo 5
1 Hinu myuwanila nyenye muvi na vindu vyamahele! Mvemba na kuwombeleza ndava ya mang'ahiso gegakuvabwelela.
Come now, you rich, weep and cry aloud for your miseries that are coming on you.
2 Vindu vinu viwolili, na nyula zinu zimeminwi na makele.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are 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 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 Mlola! Mwangavalipa luhuna vanalihengu vevahengili lihengu mumigunda yinu. Myuwanila kulungamika kwavi. BAMBU Chapanga mweavi na makakala ayuwini kuvemba kwavi.
Look, 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 hosts.
5 Mtamii pamulima kwa kugana kujisangalusa neju. Mjikulupalisi mwavene ngati ng'ombi cheyikulupili changali kumanya ligono la kuhinjwa.
You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6 Muvahamwili na kuvakoma vandu vangavabela!
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. 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.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Look, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
8 Na nyenye mewa mganikiwa kuvya na usindimala, mkangamalisa mitima yinu, ndava ligono la kubwela kwaki BAMBU luvi papipi.
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
9 Valongo vangu, mkoto kung'ung'utilana mwavene. Mkoto kuhamuliwa na Chapanga, yula Mweihamula avi papipi kuyingila pa mlyangu.
Do not grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door.
10 Valongo vangu, muvakumbuka vamlota va Chapanga vevajobvili kwa liina la BAMBU, muni kuvya luhumu lwa kukangamala mukung'ahika.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke 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.
Look, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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 above all things, my brothers, do not swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you 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.
Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
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 anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the congregation, and they should 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 will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16 Hinu, mjovelana nyenye kwa nyenye kubuda kwinu na myupilana muni mlamiswayi. Luyupu lwa mundu mbwina luna makakala ga kukita gamahele.
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
17 Eliya avi mundu ngati tete. Ayupili kwa kukangamala fula yikoto kutonya ndi yatonyili lepi pamulima miyaka yidatu na miehi sita.
Elijah was a human being with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
18 Ayupili kavili, fula yatonyili na mulima wapambiki mabenu gaki.
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
19 Valongo vangu mmonga akayaga ndava ya uchakaka, na mundu yungi akamuwuyisa,
My brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns 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 who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
