Jakobho 5

¹Tambirai, imi vafumi, chemai muridze mhere nokuda kwamadambudziko achakuwirai.Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

²Fuma yenyu yakavora, nguvo dzenyu dzapera nezvivundudzi.Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

³Ndarama yenyu nesirivheri yenyu zvinengura; ngura yazvo ichakupupurirai zvakaipa, ichapedza nyama yenyu somoto. Makazvichengetera fuma pamazuva okupedzisira.Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

⁴Tarirai, mubairo wavaranda venyu vakacheka minda yenyu, wamakaramba nawo nokunyengera, unodanidzira; nokudana kwavacheki kwakasvika kunzeve dzaShe wehondo.Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

⁵Makagara mumufaro panyika muchikarira zvinofadza; makakodza moyo yenyu sapazuva rokubaya.Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

⁶Makatongera wakarurama, mukamuvuraya; haakudzivisiyi.Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

⁷Naizvozvo hama dzangu, tsungirirai kusvikira pakuvuya kwaShe. Tarirai, murimi unomirira chibereko chenyika chinokosha, achitsungirira pamsoro pazvo kusvikira zvapiwa mvura yokutanga neyokuguma.Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

⁸Nemi vo tsungirirai; simbisai moyo yenyu, nokuti kuvuya kwaShe kwava pedo,Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

⁹Hama dzangu, musanyunyutirana kuti murege kutongwa; tarirai, mutongi umire pamukova.Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

¹⁰Hama dzangu, pakutambudzika nokutsungirira teverai makwara avaporofita vakataura nezita raShe.Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

¹¹Tarirai, vakatsunga moyo tinoti vakaropafadzwa; makanzwa zvokutsungirira kwaJobho, makavona Ishe zvaakavavarira naye, kuti Ishe unomoyo munyoro kwazvo, unetsitsi.Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

¹²Asi, hama dzangu, kupfuvura zvinhu zvose, musapika, kunyange nedenga, kana nenyika, kana nokupika kumwe kwose; asi hongu yenyu ngaive hongu, kwete yenyu ngaive kwete; kuti murege kuwira mukutongwa.But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

¹³Kunomumwe unotambudzika pakati penyu here? Ngaanyengetere. Kunomumwe unofara here? Ngaaimbe mapisarema.Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

¹⁴Kunomumwe unorwara pakati penyu here? Ngaadane vakuru vekereke; ngavamunyengeterere, vamuzodze namafuta nezita raShe.Is any sick among you? 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:

¹⁵Kunyengetera kwokutenda kuchaponesa unorwara, Ishe uchamumutsa; kana akaita zvivi, uchazvikanganwirwa.And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

¹⁶Naizvozvo revururanai zvivi zvenyu munyengetererane kuti muporeswe. Kukumbira kwomunhu wakarurama kune simba guru pakubata kwako.Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

¹⁷Eria wakanga ari munhu wakaita sesu, akanyengetera nomunyengetero kuti mvura irege kunaya; ikasanaya panyika makore matatu nemwedzi mitanhatu.Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

¹⁸Akanyengetera zve; denga rikanisa mvura, nyika ikabereka zvibereko zvayo.And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

¹⁹Hama dzangu, kana kunomunhu pakati penyu wakatsauka pazvokwadi, mumwe akamudzora,Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

²⁰ngaazive kuti unodzora mutadzi panzira yokutsauka kwake, uchaponesa mweya parufu nokufukidza zvivi zvizhinji.Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.