Yakobu 5
1 Su vinu mpikaniri mwenga walunda! Mulili na kudaya toziya ya ntabiku yayifira kuwapata.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.
2 Lunda zyenu ziwola, na nguwu zya zyenu waziliya wameyi.
Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.
3 Zahabu zyenu na mpiya ziwera kutu, na kutu ayi hayiwapitauliri, na yeni hayilii nshimba zyenu gambira motu. Mwenga mlimatira lunda mumashaka aga ga upeleru!
Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.
4 Msinda kuwalipa shibena mgongu yawatenda mahengu mumalambu genu. Mpikaniri malalamiku gawu! Kulila kwa awa yawabena malambu kusoka mumakutu ga Mtuwa yakawera na uwezu.
Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 Mulikala pasipanu mumakaliru ga kulinemeliziya na ga anasa. Mulinenepeziya kala maweni kwa lishaka lya kulikitulwa.
You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.
6 Muwatoziti wantu yawamfiriziya Mlungu na kuwalaga, womberi wawabeleriti ndiri mwenga!
You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.
7 Su walongu wangu, muhepeleri mpaka Mtuwa pakiza. Muloli yakalima ntambu yakahepelera kwa kuhepera vimeru vyakuwi vilaviyi mabenu gagafiruwa nentu. Yomberi kahepelera kwa kuhepera kwanjira vula zya kuyalira mpaka vula zya upeleru.
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Namwenga vulaa mfiruwa kuhepelera, mgoloki weri munjimiru yenu toziya lishaka lya kusoka kwakuwi Mtuwa lyapakwegera.
Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Walongu wangu, namuhinginika maweni gweka namwiza kutozwa na Mlungu. Yomberi ndo mtoza yakapakwegera, kapamlayangu.
Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.
10 Walongu wangu, pamufira kuwona uhepelera ntambu yawuwera muntabika, muliholi wambuyi wa Mlungu, watakuliti kwa uwezu wa Mtuwa.
Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Tuwashema womberi mbaka toziya wahepeleriti. Mpikaniriti visoweru vya uhepelera wa Ayubu, na muvimana ntambu Mtuwa yakamtenderiti muupeleru. Toziya Mtuwa kamema lusungu na manemu.
Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
12 Walongu wangu, pa goseri aga namulirapa kumpindi ama kwa pasipanu ama kwa shintu shimonga shoseri. Mlongi “Yina” pamfira kulonga yina na “Ndala” pamfira kulonga ndala, su hapeni mtozwi na Mlungu.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgment.
13 Hashi, kwana muntu yoseri pakati penu yakawera na ntabiku? Kafiruwa kamluwi Mlungu. Ama kwana muntu yakawera na nemeleru? Kimbi lwimbu lwa uzyumi.
Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.
14 Hashi, kwana mlweri pakati pamwenga? Kafiruwa kawashemi wazewi wa shipinga sha wantu yawamjimira Yesu, nawomberi hawamluwiri kwa Mlungu na kumswaga lipaki kwa litawu lya Mtuwa.
Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
15 Nawomberi pawaluwa kwa njimiru, mlweri ulii hakaponi, toziya Mtuwa hakamuwuziliri ukomu wakuwi. Na handa kaweriti katenditi vidoda vyoseri vilii, hakalekiziwi.
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Su muligambiri kuleka vidoda vyamtenditi maweni gweka na muliluwili kwa Mlungu maweni gweka su mpati kuponiziwa. Maluwa ga muntu muheri, gawera na makakala ga kutenda mavuwa.
Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.
17 Eliya kaweriti muntu gambira twenga. Yomberi kaluwiti kwa kugangamala vula nayitowa, na vula itowiti ndiri paisi kwa shipindi sha vinja vitatu na nusu.
Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months.
18 Shakapanu kaluwiti kayi na mpindi itowiti vula na isi imeriziya viboga vyakuwi.
And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Walongu wangu, muntu yumu penu pakagamira kutali na unakaka, na muntu gwingi pakamwuziya,
My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him:
20 muvimani kuwera ulii yakamwuziya muntu yakawera na vidoda kulawa munjira ya upotuziya, hakailopoziyi rohu ya muntu ulii kulawa mukuhowa na vidoda vivuwa havilekiziwi na Mungu.
He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
