Aramaic NT Parallel English Translations

 5:1 O rich men, howl and weep for the miseries which are coming upon you.

 5:1 O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming upon you.

 5:2 Your riches are corrupt and stink, and your vestments are eaten of the moth,

 5:2 For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:

 5:3 and your gold and your silver rusteth, and the rust of them is for a witness against you, and is to eat your flesh. You have gathered fire for you for the last days!

 5:3 and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.

 5:4 Lo, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your lands, which you have refused, clamoureth, and the cry of the harvests to the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth hath ascended.

 5:4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your ground, which ye have wrongfully retained, crieth out; and the clamor of the reapers hath entered the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

 5:5 For you have lived daintily on the earth, and have been wanton, and have nourished your bodies, as for the day of slaughter.

 5:5 For ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of slaughter.

 5:6 You have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.

 5:6 Ye have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you.

 5:7 ¶ BUT you, my brethren, prolong your spirit until the coming of the Lord; as the husbandman who expecteth the precious fruits of his lands, and prolongeth his spirit for them, until he receive the rain the early and the latter;

 5:7 But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain.

 5:8 so also you, prolong your spirit, and your hearts confirm; for the coming of our Lord draweth nigh.

 5:8 So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh

 5:9 Groan not one against another, my brethren, that you be not judged; for, behold, the Judge standeth before the door.

 5:9 Be not querulous one against another, my brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment, standeth before the door.

 5:10 The example of the prophets take to you, my brethren, to prolong your spirits in your afflictions, them who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

 5:10 For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take to you the example of the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

 5:11 For, behold, we give blessedness to them who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Iob, and the end which the Lord wrought for him you have seen; because that merciful is the Lord and compassionate.

 5:11 For lo, we ascribe blessedness to them who have borne suffering. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; and ye have seen the result which the Lord wrought for him: for the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

 5:12 But before every thing, my brethren, swear not; by heaven nor by earth, nor with any other oath; but let your word be Yes, yes, and No, no, that you be not bound under condemnation.

 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.

 5:13 And if any of you be in affliction, let him pray; and if he rejoice, let him sing;

 5:13 And if any of you shall be in affliction, let him pray; or if he be joyous, let him sing psalms.

 5:14 and if he be sick, let him call for the presbyters of the church, and they will pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord.

 5:14 And if one is sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray for him, and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord:

 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall make whole him who was sick, and our Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

 5:15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and our Lord will raise him up; and if sins have been committed by him, they will be forgiven him.

 5:16 But confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. For great is the power of that prayer which the righteous prayeth.

 5:16 And confess ye your faults one to another, and pray ye one for another, that ye may be healed; for great is the efficacy of the prayer which a righteous man prayeth.

 5:17 Elia also was a man of suffering, as we; and he prayed that the rain should not fall upon the earth, and it fell not (for) three years and six months.

 5:17 Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend upon the earth; and it descended not, for three years and six months.

 5:18 And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth gave her fruits.

 5:18 And again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth gave forth its fruits.

 5:19 My brethren, if any of you shall err from the way of truth, and one shall convert him from his error,

 5:19 My brethren, if one of you err from the way of truth, and any one convert him from his error;

 5:20 let him know, that he who turneth a sinner from the error of his way, saveth his soul from death, and hideth the multitude of his sins.

 5:20 let him know, that he who turneth the sinner from the error of his way, will resuscitate his soul from death, and will cover the multitude of his sins.