1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that [are] coming upon [you].
1Teererai imwi vafumi, rirai muridze mhere nekuda kwematambudziko enyu achakuwirai.
2Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
2Fuma yenyu yakaora, uye nguvo dzenyu dzakafusiwa.
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.
3Ndarama yenyu nesirivheri zvine ngura; ngura yazvo ichava uchapupu kwamuri, ichadya nyama yenyu sezvinonzi moto. Makazvichengetera fuma pamazuva ekupedzisira.
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.
4Tarira, mubairo wevaranda vakacheka minda yenyu, yamakaramba nayo nekunyengera, unodanidzira; nekudana kwevacheki kwakasvika kunzeve dzaIshe wehondo.
5Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts [as] in a day of slaughter;
5Makagara muumbozha panyika muchikarira zvinofadza; makakodza moyo yenyu sepazuva rekubaya.
6ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.
6Makarasha, makauraya wakarurama; haakupikisii.
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.
7Naizvozvo tsungirirai, hama, kusvikira pakuuya kwaIshe. Tarira, murimi unomirira chibereko chevhu chinokosha, uye unotsungirira zvikuru kusvikira apiwa mvura yekutanga neyokupedzisira.
8*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
8Imwiwo tsungirirai; simbisai moyo yenyu nekuti kuuya kwaIshe kwaswedera,
9Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
9Musanyunyutirana, hama, kuti murege kupiwa mhosva; tarira, mutongi umire pamukova.
10Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the] Lord.
10Torai muenzaniso wekutambudzika, hama dzangu, newekutsungirira vaporofita wavakataura nezita raIshe.
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.
11Tarira, tinoti vakaropafadzwa vakatsungirira; makanzwa zvekutsungirira kwaJobho, uye makavona zvaakavavarirwa naIshe, kuti Ishe une moyo munyoro kwazvo, une tsitsi.
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.
12Asi pamusoro pezvinhu zvose, hama dzangu, musapika, kana nedenga, kana nenyika, kana nekumwe kupika kupi; asi hongu yenyu ngaive hongu, uye kwete, kwete; kuti murege kuwira mukupiwa mhosva.
13Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.
13Kune umwe unotambudzika pakati penyu here? Ngaanyengetere. Pane unofara here? Ngaaimbe mapisarema.
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;
14Pane unorwara pakati penyu here? Ngaadane vakuru vekereke; uye ngavamunyengeterere, vachimuzodza namafuta muzita raIshe.
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.
15Uye munyengetero werutendo uchaponesa unorwara, uye Ishe uchamumutsa; zvino kana akaita zvivi, uchazvikangamwirwa.
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.
16Naizvozvo reururiranai zvivi zvenyu munyengetererane kuti muporeswe. Munyengetero wakasimba womunhu wakarurama une simba zvikuru.
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;
17Eria wakange ari munhu wemanzwiro akaita sesu, akanyengetera nemoyo wose kuti mvura irege kunaya; ikasanaya panyika makore matatu nemwedzi mitanhatu;
18and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to spring forth.
18zvino wakanyengeterazve; denga rikapa mvura, nyika ikabereka zvibereko zvayo.
19My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,
19Hama, kana umwe pakati penyu achitsauka kubva pachokwadi, mumwe akamudzora,
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.
20ngaazive kuti uyo unodzora mutadzi panzira yekutsauka kwake uchaponesa mweya parufu nekufukidza zvivi zvizhinji.