Yakobu 5
1 Su vinu mpikaniri mwenga walunda! Mulili na kudaya toziya ya ntabiku yayifira kuwapata.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
2 Lunda zyenu ziwola, na nguwu zya zyenu waziliya wameyi.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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 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 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 wages of the labourers 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 Mulikala pasipanu mumakaliru ga kulinemeliziya na ga anasa. Mulinenepeziya kala maweni kwa lishaka lya kulikitulwa.
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6 Muwatoziti wantu yawamfiriziya Mlungu na kuwalaga, womberi wawabeleriti ndiri mwenga!
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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, 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 Namwenga vulaa mfiruwa kuhepelera, mgoloki weri munjimiru yenu toziya lishaka lya kusoka kwakuwi Mtuwa lyapakwegera.
You also be patient. Establish 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.
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
10 Walongu wangu, pamufira kuwona uhepelera ntambu yawuwera muntabika, muliholi wambuyi wa Mlungu, watakuliti kwa uwezu wa Mtuwa.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, 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 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 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 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 Hashi, kwana muntu yoseri pakati penu yakawera na ntabiku? Kafiruwa kamluwi Mlungu. Ama kwana muntu yakawera na nemeleru? Kimbi lwimbu lwa uzyumi.
Is any amongst you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
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 amongst 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 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 will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
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 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 Eliya kaweriti muntu gambira twenga. Yomberi kaluwiti kwa kugangamala vula nayitowa, na vula itowiti ndiri paisi kwa shipindi sha vinja vitatu na nusu.
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 Shakapanu kaluwiti kayi na mpindi itowiti vula na isi imeriziya viboga vyakuwi.
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19 Walongu wangu, muntu yumu penu pakagamira kutali na unakaka, na muntu gwingi pakamwuziya,
Brothers, if any amongst you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
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.
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.
