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

¹Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon [you];

²Fuma yenyu yakaora, uye nguvo dzenyu dzakafusiwa.

²your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

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

³your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

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

⁴lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you — doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

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

⁵ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

⁶Makarasha, makauraya wakarurama; haakupikisii.

⁶ye did condemn — ye did murder the righteous one, 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, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain — early and latter;

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

⁸be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;

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

⁹murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

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

¹⁰An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;

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

¹¹lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

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.

¹²And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

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

¹³Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

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

¹⁴is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed 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 the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.

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

¹⁶Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

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

¹⁷Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray — not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;

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

¹⁸and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.

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

¹⁹Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

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

²⁰let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.