complete verse (Jeremiah 8:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 8:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “Go (sing.) and tell those people that I God have said,
    ‘When a person has fallen does he not get up again?
    Or when a person has gone astray from the road will he not return back again?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to me that I say this message of him to the people: ‘If a man falls, (is it) not so that he rises-up? If he went-astray, (is it) not so that he returns?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Yahweh said to me, ‘Jeremiah, tell the people that this is what I, Yahweh, am saying to them:
    ‘When people fall down, they get up again, do they not ?
    When people are going along a road and find out that they are walking on the wrong road, they go back and find the correct road, do they not ?” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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