1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that [are] coming upon [you].
1¶ Tena, e te hunga taonga, e tangi koutou, aue ki o koutou mate meake nei puta mai.
2Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
2Kua pirau o koutou taonga, kua kainga o koutou kakahu e te huhu.
3Your 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.
3Kua waikuratia ta koutou koura me ta koutou hiriwa; ko te waikura ano o aua mea hei kaiwhakaatu i to koutou he, hei kai hoki i o koutou kikokiko, ano he kapura. Kua pae na i a koutou he taonga mo nga ra whakamutunga.
4Behold, 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.
4Nana, kei te karanga te utu i kaiponuhia e koutou ma nga kaimahi nana i kokoti a koutou mara, kua tae atu ano hoki nga karanga a nga kaikokoti ki nga taringa o te Ariki o nga mano tini.
5Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts [as] in a day of slaughter;
5Kua kai koutou i nga kai papai i runga i te whenua, whaia ana e koutou a te tinana whakaahuareka; atawhaitia ana e koutou o koutou ngakau, me te mea ano ko te ra okanga tenei.
6ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.
6Whakataka ana e koutou ki te he, patua iho te mea tika, kihai ano ia i pehi atu i ta koutou.
7Have 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.
7Na, tatari marie koutou, e oku teina, ki te haerenga mai o te Ariki. Na, tumanako tonu te kaingaki ki nga hua utu nui o te whenua, he mea tatari marie atu nana, kia tae mai ra ano to mua me to muri ua.
8*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
8Tatari marie ano hoki koutou; kia u o koutou ngakau: kua tata hoki te haerenga mai o te Ariki.
9Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
9Kaua e amuamu tetahi ki tetahi, e oku teina; kei whakataka koutou ki te he: nana, kei nga tatau te kaiwhakawa e tu ana.
10Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the] Lord.
10Ko nga poropiti i korero nei i runga i te ingoa o te Ariki, waiho ratou, e oku teina, hei tauira mo te whakamanawanui ki nga kino, mo te tatari marie.
11Behold, 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.
11Nana, ki ta tatou he hari te hunga e whakamanawanui ana. kua rongo koutou ki te manawanui o Hopa, kua kite hoki i to te Ariki whakamutunga, he nui to te Ariki aroha, me tana mahi tohu.
12But 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.
12¶ Ko te tuatahi ia o nga mea katoa, e oku teina, kaua te rangi, kaua te whenua, kaua tetahi atu oati, e oatitia e koutou: engari me ae ta koutou ae, me kahore ta koutou kahore; kei taka koutou ki te whakawa.
13Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.
13Ki te pangia tetahi o koutou e te mamae, me inoi. Ki te koa te ngakau o tetahi, me waiata.
14Is 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;
14Ki te turoro tetahi i roto i a koutou, me karanga e ia ki nga kaumatua o te hahi; a ma ratou e inoi ki runga ki a ia, me te whakawahi ano i a ia ki te hinu i runga i te ingoa o te Ariki:
15and 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.
15A e ora te turoro i te inoi whakapono, ma te Ariki ano ia e whakaara ake; ki te mea hoki kua mahi hara ia, ka murua tona hara.
16Confess 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.
16Whakina o koutou he tetahi ki tetahi, me inoi ano koutou tetahi mo tetahi, kia ora ai o koutou mate. Nui atu te mana o te inoi kaha a te tangata tika.
17Elias 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;
17He tangata a Iraia, he rite tahi te ngakau ki o tatou, heoi ka kaha nei tana inoi kia kaua e ua; kore ake he ua ki runga ki te whenua, a e toru nga tau, e ono nga marama.
18and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to spring forth.
18Inoi ana ano ia, a ka homai he ua e te rangi, na hua ana nga hua o te whenua.
19My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,
19E oku teina, ki te kotiti ke tetahi o koutou i te pono, a ka meinga e tetahi kia tahuri mai ano.
20let 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.
20Kia matau ia, ko te tangata i tahuri ai te tangata hara i te he o tona ara, e ora i a ia he wairua kei mate, he tini ano nga hara ka hipokina e ia.