¹ Dégluleen yéen boroom alal yi, jooyleen te naqarlu ndax mbugal, gi leen di xaar.

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

² Seen alal seey na, seen yére yi maxe na,

²Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.

³ seen wurus ak seen xaalis xomaag na. Te xomaag jooju seede lay doon, su leen di daanlu, ba lakk leen ni safara. Dajale ngeen alal ju ne gàññ, te fekk yéena ngi ci muju jamono.

³Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in [the] last days.

⁴ Dégluleen, jooyi xaalis bi ngeen sàcce ci gubkat, yi leen doon liggéeyal, ak yuuxi góobkat yi, dugg nañu ci noppi Yàlla Aji Kàttan ji.

⁴Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of [the] Lord of sabaoth.

⁵ Ci barele ak bànneex ngeen dunde ci kaw suuf, di yafal seen bopp, fekk bésu rendi baa ngii.

⁵Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts [as] in a day of slaughter;

⁶ Daan ngeen ku jub, ba rey ko sax, te bañul.

⁶ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.

⁷ Yéen samay bokk, muñleen, ba Boroom bi dellusi ci ndamam. Seetleen ci beykat bi, ni muy xaare njariñ ci meññeefu suuf, tey muñ, céebo ba bët wàcc.

⁷Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive [the] early and [the] latter rain.

⁸ Yéen itam nag muñleen te dëgëral seen xol, xam ne ñëwu Boroom bi ci ndamam jege na.

⁸*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.

⁹ Buleen jàmbatante, samay bokk, ngir ragal Yàlla àtte leen. Àttekat baa ngi ci bunt bi sax!

⁹Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

¹⁰ Bokk yi, defleen yonent, yi wax ci turu Boroom bi, seeni royukaay ci muñ tiis ak ci góor-góorlu.

¹⁰Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the] Lord.

¹¹ Xam ngeen ne ñiy góor-góorlu, ñu barkeel lañu. Dégg ngeen muñ ga Ayóoba amoon, te gis muj gu rafet, ga ko Boroom bi jagleel, ndax Boroom bi kuy ñeewante la te bare yërmande.

¹¹Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

¹² Te li fi raw samay bokk, buleen waat mukk, bu muy ci asamaan mbaa ci suuf mbaa ci leneen lu mu man a doon. Nangeen yem ci: «Waaw,» ak «Déedéet,» ngir bañ cee layoo fa kanam Yàlla.

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

¹³ Su amee ci yéen ku nekk ci tiis, na ñaan ci Yàlla. Ku nekk ci mbég, na sant Yàlla ciy woy.

¹³Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.

¹⁴ Su amee ci yéen ku wopp, na woo njiiti mbooloo mi, ñu ñaanal ko te diw boppam ci turu Boroom bi.

¹⁴Is any sick among you? let him call to [him] the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of [the] Lord;

¹⁵ Te ñaan gu ànd ak ngëm dina musal ki wopp, ba Boroom bi yékkati ko. Te su ko fekkoon ak i bàkkaar sax, Yàlla dina ko baal.

¹⁵and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he be one who has committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.

¹⁶ Kon nag waxanteleen seeni bàkkaar tey ñaanalante, ngir ngeen wér. Ñaanu aji jub gu dëggu, dooleem amul kem.

¹⁶Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. [The] fervent supplication of the righteous [man] has much power.

¹⁷ Naka noonu Iliyas nit la woon ku bindoo ni nun, waaye bi mu saxee ci ñaan Yàlla, ngir mu bañ a taw, ndox laalul suuf diirub ñetti at ak genn-wàll.

¹⁷Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;

¹⁸ Gannaaw ga mu dellu ñaan, asamaan daldi taw, te suuf si saxal meññeef.

¹⁸and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to spring forth.

¹⁹ Samay bokk, su amee ci yéen ku réere dëgg, te am ku ko gindi,

¹⁹My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,

²⁰ na xam lii: ku gindi bàkkaarkat ci réeram, musal nga nit ci dee te faral ko bàkkaar yu bare.

²⁰let him know that he that brings back a sinner from [the] error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.