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

¹ Ya araŋ arzakantey, wa maa: wa hẽ ka kaati masiibey kaŋ ga kaa araŋ gaa sabbay se.

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

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

² Araŋ arzakey halaci, araŋ bankaarayey mo, kollo n'i ŋwa.

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

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.

³ Araŋ wura nd'araŋ nzarfo mo hay. I hayyaŋo mo ga goro seeda araŋ boŋ k'araŋ gaahamey ŋwa danga danji cine. Araŋ n'araŋ arzakey jisi zaari banantey ra.

³Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.

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) .

⁴ Guna, alhakkey kaŋ araŋ zamba kaŋ araŋ wangu ka no goy-teerey kaŋ n'araŋ farey wi se, i goono ga jinde sambu. Fari wiikoy hẽeno mo furo Rabbi Kundeykoyo hangey ra.

⁴Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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

⁵ Araŋ n'araŋ waate ŋwa ndunnya boŋ, araŋ goro kaani ra, araŋ na harram ŋwa ka naasu wiyaŋ zaaro se.

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

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

⁶ Araŋ na boro adili ciiti ka zeeri k'a wi mo, a mana wangu araŋ se mo.

⁶Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.

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.

⁷ Araŋ ma suuru binde, ay nya-izey, hala Rabbi ma kaa. Guna mate kaŋ cine farko ga nga laabu nafa albarkanta batu. A ga suuru a se hal a ma du hari, sintina da banda waney mo.

⁷Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

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

⁸ Araŋ mo, kal araŋ ma suuru. Araŋ m'araŋ biney daahirandi, zama Rabbi kaayaŋo maan.

⁸Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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

⁹ Ay nya-izey, araŋ ma si care jance zama i ma si araŋ ciiti. Guna, Ciitikwa goono ga kay fu meyo gaa.

⁹Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

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

¹⁰ Ay nya-izey, araŋ ma fongu nda annabey* kaŋ salaŋ Rabbi maa ra. Araŋ m'i dondon ka suuru taabi ra danga mate kaŋ cine i te.

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

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.

¹¹ Guna, iri ga ne borey kaŋ suuru se albarkanteyaŋ. Araŋ maa Ayuba suuro baaro. Araŋ di haŋ kaŋ Rabbi te a se kokor banda mo, za kaŋ Rabbi to da bakaraw da suuji.

¹¹Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

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”

¹² Amma hay kulu jine, ay nya-izey, araŋ ma si ze. Wa si ze da beene, wala da ganda, wala da zeyaŋ kulu dumi. Amma araŋ «Oho» ma goro Oho, araŋ «Hã'a» ma goro Hã'a mo, zama araŋ ma si kaŋ ciiti ra.

¹²But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

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

¹³ Boro fo go no araŋ game ra kaŋ goono ga taabi, wala? To! A ma te adduwa. Boro fo go no kaŋ bine ga kaan, wala? To! A ma saabuyaŋ baytu te.

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

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,

¹⁴ Boro fo go no araŋ game ra kaŋ jante, wala? To! A ma Almasihu marga arkusey* ce, i ma adduwa te a se ka ji soogu a boŋ Rabbi maa ra.

¹⁴Is any among you sick? 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:

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.

¹⁵ Adduwa din kaŋ i te cimbeeri ra ga jantekomo faaba, Rabbi mo g'a tunandi. D'a na zunubi te mo, Irikoy g'a yaafa a se.

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

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.

¹⁶ Yaadin gaa araŋ m'araŋ zunubey ci care se. Araŋ ma te care se adduwa, zama araŋ ma du baani. Adilante adduwa gonda dabari gumo, a ga to mo.

¹⁶Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

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.

¹⁷ Iliya ya boro no kaŋ gonda takayaŋ sanda iri wano cine. A te adduwa da anniya hari ma si kaŋ, haro mana kaŋ laabo boŋ mo jiiri hinza nda handu iddu.

¹⁷Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.

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

¹⁸ A ye ka te adduwa koyne, beena te hari, laabo mo na nga albarka hay.

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

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

¹⁹ Ay nya-izey, d'araŋ ra boro fo kamba cimi gaa, nga no, boro fo n'a bare ka ye cimo do haray,

¹⁹My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;

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.

²⁰ wa woone bay: boro kaŋ ga zunubikooni bare ka ye nga fonda ra kaŋ gaa a kamba, a g'a fundo faaba buuyaŋ gaa ka zunubi boobo daabu a se mo.

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