¹Teererai imwi vafumi, rirai muridze mhere nekuda kwematambudziko enyu achakuwirai.

¹Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

²Fuma yenyu yakaora, uye nguvo dzenyu dzakafusiwa.

²Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

³Ndarama yenyu nesirivheri zvine ngura; ngura yazvo ichava uchapupu kwamuri, ichadya nyama yenyu sezvinonzi moto. Makazvichengetera fuma pamazuva ekupedzisira.

³Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

⁴Tarira, mubairo wevaranda vakacheka minda yenyu, yamakaramba nayo nekunyengera, unodanidzira; nekudana kwevacheki kwakasvika kunzeve dzaIshe wehondo.

⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

⁵Makagara muumbozha panyika muchikarira zvinofadza; makakodza moyo yenyu sepazuva rekubaya.

⁵Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

⁶Makarasha, makauraya wakarurama; haakupikisii.

⁶Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

⁷Naizvozvo tsungirirai, hama, kusvikira pakuuya kwaIshe. Tarira, murimi unomirira chibereko chevhu chinokosha, uye unotsungirira zvikuru kusvikira apiwa mvura yekutanga neyokupedzisira.

⁷Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

⁸Imwiwo tsungirirai; simbisai moyo yenyu nekuti kuuya kwaIshe kwaswedera,

⁸Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

⁹Musanyunyutirana, hama, kuti murege kupiwa mhosva; tarira, mutongi umire pamukova.

⁹Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

¹⁰Torai muenzaniso wekutambudzika, hama dzangu, newekutsungirira vaporofita wavakataura nezita raIshe.

¹⁰Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

¹¹Tarira, tinoti vakaropafadzwa vakatsungirira; makanzwa zvekutsungirira kwaJobho, uye makavona zvaakavavarirwa naIshe, kuti Ishe une moyo munyoro kwazvo, une tsitsi.

¹¹Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

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.

¹²But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

¹³Kune umwe unotambudzika pakati penyu here? Ngaanyengetere. Pane unofara here? Ngaaimbe mapisarema.

¹³Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

¹⁴Pane unorwara pakati penyu here? Ngaadane vakuru vekereke; uye ngavamunyengeterere, vachimuzodza namafuta muzita raIshe.

¹⁴Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

¹⁵Uye munyengetero werutendo uchaponesa unorwara, uye Ishe uchamumutsa; zvino kana akaita zvivi, uchazvikangamwirwa.

¹⁵And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

¹⁶Naizvozvo reururiranai zvivi zvenyu munyengetererane kuti muporeswe. Munyengetero wakasimba womunhu wakarurama une simba zvikuru.

¹⁶Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

¹⁷Eria wakange ari munhu wemanzwiro akaita sesu, akanyengetera nemoyo wose kuti mvura irege kunaya; ikasanaya panyika makore matatu nemwedzi mitanhatu;

¹⁷Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

¹⁸zvino wakanyengeterazve; denga rikapa mvura, nyika ikabereka zvibereko zvayo.

¹⁸And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

¹⁹Hama, kana umwe pakati penyu achitsauka kubva pachokwadi, mumwe akamudzora,

¹⁹Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

²⁰ngaazive kuti uyo unodzora mutadzi panzira yekutsauka kwake uchaponesa mweya parufu nekufukidza zvivi zvizhinji.

²⁰Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.