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

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

3 Your 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 Behold, 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 Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts {as} in a day of slaughter;

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

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

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

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

11 Behold, 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 But 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 Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.

14 Is 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 and 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 Confess 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 Elias 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 and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to spring forth.

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

20 let 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.

1 Tena, e te hunga taonga, e tangi koutou, aue ki o koutou mate meake nei puta mai.

2 Kua pirau o koutou taonga, kua kainga o koutou kakahu e te huhu.

3 Kua waikuratia ta koutou koura me ta koutou hiriwa; ko te waikura ano o aua mea hei kaiwhakaatu i to koutou he, hei kai hoki i o koutou kikokiko, ano he kapura. Kua pae na i a koutou he taonga mo nga ra whakamutunga.

4 Nana, kei te karanga te utu i kaiponuhia e koutou ma nga kaimahi nana i kokoti a koutou mara, kua tae atu ano hoki nga karanga a nga kaikokoti ki nga taringa o te Ariki o nga mano tini.

5 Kua kai koutou i nga kai papai i runga i te whenua, whaia ana e koutou a te tinana whakaahuareka; atawhaitia ana e koutou o koutou ngakau, me te mea ano ko te ra okanga tenei.

6 Whakataka ana e koutou ki te he, patua iho te mea tika, kihai ano ia i pehi atu i ta koutou.

7 Na, tatari marie koutou, e oku teina, ki te haerenga mai o te Ariki. Na, tumanako tonu te kaingaki ki nga hua utu nui o te whenua, he mea tatari marie atu nana, kia tae mai ra ano to mua me to muri ua.

8 Tatari marie ano hoki koutou; kia u o koutou ngakau: kua tata hoki te haerenga mai o te Ariki.

9 Kaua e amuamu tetahi ki tetahi, e oku teina; kei whakataka koutou ki te he: nana, kei nga tatau te kaiwhakawa e tu ana.

10 Ko nga poropiti i korero nei i runga i te ingoa o te Ariki, waiho ratou, e oku teina, hei tauira mo te whakamanawanui ki nga kino, mo te tatari marie.

11 Nana, ki ta tatou he hari te hunga e whakamanawanui ana. kua rongo koutou ki te manawanui o Hopa, kua kite hoki i to te Ariki whakamutunga, he nui to te Ariki aroha, me tana mahi tohu.

12 Ko te tuatahi ia o nga mea katoa, e oku teina, kaua te rangi, kaua te whenua, kaua tetahi atu oati, e oatitia e koutou: engari me ae ta koutou ae, me kahore ta koutou kahore; kei taka koutou ki te whakawa.

13 Ki te pangia tetahi o koutou e te mamae, me inoi. Ki te koa te ngakau o tetahi, me waiata.

14 Ki te turoro tetahi i roto i a koutou, me karanga e ia ki nga kaumatua o te hahi; a ma ratou e inoi ki runga ki a ia, me te whakawahi ano i a ia ki te hinu i runga i te ingoa o te Ariki:

15 A e ora te turoro i te inoi whakapono, ma te Ariki ano ia e whakaara ake; ki te mea hoki kua mahi hara ia, ka murua tona hara.

16 Whakina o koutou he tetahi ki tetahi, me inoi ano koutou tetahi mo tetahi, kia ora ai o koutou mate. Nui atu te mana o te inoi kaha a te tangata tika.

17 He tangata a Iraia, he rite tahi te ngakau ki o tatou, heoi ka kaha nei tana inoi kia kaua e ua; kore ake he ua ki runga ki te whenua, a e toru nga tau, e ono nga marama.

18 Inoi ana ano ia, a ka homai he ua e te rangi, na hua ana nga hua o te whenua.

19 E oku teina, ki te kotiti ke tetahi o koutou i te pono, a ka meinga e tetahi kia tahuri mai ano.

20 Kia matau ia, ko te tangata i tahuri ai te tangata hara i te he o tona ara, e ora i a ia he wairua kei mate, he tini ano nga hara ka hipokina e ia.