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

¹Na sasa sikilizeni enyi matajiri! Lieni na kuomboleza kwa sababu ya taabu zitakazowajieni.

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

²Mali zenu zimeoza, na nguo zenu zimeliwa na nondo.

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.

³Dhahabu yenu na fedha vimeota kutu, na kutu hiyo itakuwa ushahidi dhidi yenu, nayo itakula miili yenu kama vile moto. Ninyi mmejilundikia mali katika siku hizi za mwisho!

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) .

⁴Hamkuwalipa mishahara watumishi waliofanya kazi katika mashamba yenu. Sikilizeni malalamiko yao! Kilio cha hao wanaovuna mashamba yenu kimefika masikioni mwa Bwana, Mwenye Nguvu.

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

⁵Mmeishi duniani maisha ya kujifurahisha na ya anasa. Mmejinenepesha tayari kwa siku ya kuchinjwa.

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

⁶Mmemhukumu na kumwua mtu asiye na hatia, naye hakuwapigeni.

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.

⁷Basi, ndugu zangu, muwe na subira mpaka Bwana atakapokuja. Tazameni mkulima anavyongoja kwa subira mimea yake itoe mavuno mazuri. Yeye hungojea kwa subira mvua za masika na za vuli.

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

⁸Nanyi pia mnapaswa kuwa na subira; imarisheni mioyo yenu, maana siku ya kuja kwake Bwana inakaribia.

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

⁹Ndugu zangu, msinung'unikiane ninyi kwa ninyi msije mkahukumiwa na Mungu. Hakimu yu karibu, tayari kuingia.

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

¹⁰Ndugu, mkitaka kuona mfano wa subira na uvumilivu katika mateso, fikirini juu ya manabii ambao walinena kwa jina la Bwana.

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.

¹¹Tunawaita hao wenye heri kwa sababu walivumilia. Mmesikia habari za uvumilivu wa Yobu, na mnajua jinsi Bwana alivyomtendea mwishoni. Maana Bwana amejaa huruma na rehema.

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”

¹²Zaidi ya hayo yote, ndugu zangu, msiape kwa mbingu, wala kwa dunia, wala kwa kitu kingine chochote. Semeni "Ndiyo" kama maana yenu ni ndiyo, na "La" kama maana yenu ni la, na hapo hamtahukumiwa na Mungu.

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

¹³Je, pana mtu yeyote miongoni mwenu aliye na shida? Anapaswa kusali. Je, yuko mwenye furaha? Anapaswa kuimba nyimbo za sifa.

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,

¹⁴Je, yuko mgonjwa kati yenu? Anapaswa kuwaita wazee wa kanisa, nao watamwombea na kumpaka mafuta kwa jina la Bwana.

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.

¹⁵Wakiomba kwa imani mgonjwa ataponyeshwa; Bwana atampatia nafuu, na dhambi alizotenda zitaondolewa.

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.

¹⁶Basi, ungamanianeni dhambi zenu, na ombeaneni, ili mpate kuponywa. Sala ya mtu mwema ina nguvu ya kutenda mengi.

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.

¹⁷Eliya alikuwa binadamu kama sisi. Aliomba kwa moyo mvua isinyeshe, nayo haikunyesha nchini kwa muda wa miaka mitatu na miezi sita.

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

¹⁸Kisha akaomba tena, mvua ikanyesha kutoka angani na nchi ikatoa mazao yake.

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

¹⁹Ndugu zangu, mmoja wenu akipotoka kuhusu ukweli, na mwingine akamrudisha,

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.

²⁰fahamuni kwamba, huyo anayemrudisha mwenye dhambi kutoka njia yake ya upotovu, ataiokoa roho yake kutoka kifo, na dhambi nyingi zitaondolewa.