¹Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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

²Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

²Fuma yenyu yakaora, uye nguvo dzenyu dzakafusiwa.

³Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your 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 the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot) .

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

⁵You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

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

⁶You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

⁶Makarasha, makauraya wakarurama; haakupikisii.

⁷Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

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

⁸You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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

⁹Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

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

¹⁰Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

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

¹¹Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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

¹²But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes,” and your “no,” “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy. TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”

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.

¹³Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

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

¹⁴Is any among you sick? Let him call for 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 will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

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

¹⁶Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

¹⁷Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for 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;

¹⁸He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

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

¹⁹Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

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

²⁰let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

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