Yakobo 5
1 Basi sikilizeni, ninyi matajiri, lieni na kuomboleza kwa ajili ya hali mbaya sana inayowajia.
Come, now, you rich men, weep, howl, on account of your miseries, which are coming upon you.
2 Utajiri wenu umeoza na mavazi yenu yameliwa na nondo.
Your riches are putrefied, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Dhahabu yenu na fedha yenu vimeliwa na kutu. Kutu yake itashuhudia dhidi yenu nayo itaila miili yenu kama vile moto. Mmejiwekea hazina kwa ajili ya siku za mwisho.
Your gold and silver are eaten with rust, and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.
4 Angalieni! Ule ujira wa vibarua waliolima mashamba yenu mliouzuia kwa hila unapiga kelele dhidi yenu na vilio vya wavunaji vimefika masikioni mwa Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote.
Hark! the hire of the laborers who have reaped your field, which is fraudulently kept back by you, cries; and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5 Mmeishi duniani kwa anasa na kwa starehe, mmejinenepesha tayari kwa siku ya kuchinjwa.
You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of festivity.
6 Mmewahukumu na kuwaua watu wenye haki, waliokuwa hawapingani nanyi.
You have condemned--you have killed the Just One--he did not resist you.
7 Kwa hiyo, ndugu zangu, vumilieni hadi kuja kwake Bwana. Angalieni jinsi mkulima angojavyo ardhi itoe mavuno yake yaliyo ya thamani na jinsi anavyovumilia kwa ajili ya kupata mvua za kwanza na za mwisho.
Behold the husbandman, who expects the valuable fruit of the earth, waits patiently for it, till it receive the early and later rain.
8 Ninyi nanyi vumilieni, tena simameni imara, kwa sababu kuja kwa Bwana kumekaribia.
Be you also patient--strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws nigh.
9 Ndugu zangu, msinungʼunikiane msije mkahukumiwa. Hakimu amesimama mlangoni!
Repine not against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the Judge stands before the door.
10 Ndugu zangu, waangalieni manabii walionena kwa Jina la Bwana, ili kuwa mfano wa uvumilivu katika kukabiliana na mateso.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord: for an example of suffering evil, and of patience.
11 Kama mnavyojua, tunawahesabu kuwa wabarikiwa wale waliovumilia. Mmesikia habari za uvumilivu wake Ayubu na mmeona kile ambacho hatimaye Bwana alimtendea. Bwana ni mwingi wa huruma, na amejaa rehema.
Behold, we call them happy, who are patient. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
12 Zaidi ya yote, ndugu zangu, msiape, iwe kwa mbingu au kwa dunia, au kwa kitu kingine chochote. “Ndiyo” yenu na iwe ndiyo, na “Hapana” yenu iwe hapana, la sivyo mtahukumiwa.
But, above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by the heaven, or by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yes, be Yes, and your no, No; that you may not fall under condemnation.
13 Je, mtu yeyote miongoni mwenu amepatwa na taabu? Basi inampasa aombe. Je, kuna yeyote mwenye furaha? Basi na aimbe nyimbo za kusifu.
Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray: is any one cheerful? let him sing psalms.
14 Je, kuna yeyote miongoni mwenu aliye mgonjwa? Basi inampasa awaite wazee wa kanisa wamwombee na kumpaka mafuta kwa Jina la Bwana.
Is any one sick, among you? let him send for the seniors of the congregation, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord.
15 Kule kuomba kwa imani kutamwokoa huyo mgonjwa, naye Bwana atamwinua na kama ametenda dhambi, atasamehewa.
And the prayer of faith will save the sick person, and so the Lord will raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Kwa hiyo ungamianeni dhambi zenu ninyi kwa ninyi na kuombeana ili mpate kuponywa. Maombi ya mwenye haki yana nguvu tena yanafaa sana.
Confess your faults, one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The inwrought prayer of the righteous man avails much.
17 Eliya alikuwa mwanadamu kama sisi. Akaomba kwa bidii kwamba mvua isinyeshe, nayo haikunyesha juu ya nchi kwa muda wa miaka mitatu na miezi sita.
Elias was a man frail and mortal like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
18 Kisha akaomba tena, nazo mbingu zikatoa mvua nayo ardhi ikatoa mazao yake.
And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the land brought forth its fruit.
19 Ndugu zangu, yeyote miongoni mwenu akipotoka na kuicha kweli, naye akarejezwa na mtu mwingine,
Brethren, if any one among you be seduced from the truth, and any one turn him back;
20 hamna budi kujua kwamba yeyote amrejezaye mwenye dhambi kutoka upotovu wake, ataiokoa roho ya huyo mwenye dhambi kutoka mauti na kusitiri wingi wa dhambi.
let him know what he who converts a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
