complete verse (Lamentations 4:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “People scolded (them) saying,
    ‘Move far away you sinners.
    You go away so you do not touch us!’
    As they are fleeing and wandering around,
    the people of another district/country say to them,
    ‘Never shall these people live in our country!’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “People are shouting, "Go away, O unclean people,
    go far away, don’t touch us."
    When they became fugitives and wanderers;
    people said among the nations,
    ‘They can stay here with us no longer."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The people shout at them, ‘Go away! You are dirty! You do not touch us.’ Therefore they fled and wherever nation they went; but no one at-all accepted them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The people who were alive shouted, ‘Stay away from us ! You are defiled/untouchable!
    Do not touch us!’
    So the prophets and priests fled from Israel,
    and they wandered around from one country to another,
    because people in each country kept saying to them, ‘You cannot stay here!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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