complete verse (Amos 2:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Amos 2:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “When they are in any/every place where idols are prayed to
    they lie on skins that have been taken over.
    And in the house of those idols
    they drink the wine they get when they use the fines given to people.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They lie down near every altar on the
    clothing they have seized as collateral.
    They drink wine in the temple of their gods
    which they took as fines.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They sleep in the places where they worship wearing clothes which were-mortgaged to them by the poor-ones. And they drink in my temple a wine as payment by the poor-ones of their loan.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When poor people borrow money,
    the lenders force those people to give to them a piece of clothing for them to keep until he can pay back the money.
    But at the end of each day, instead of returning that garment as Yahweh had commanded them to,
    they lie down on that garment at the places where they worship their gods!
    They fine people,
    and with that money they buy wine and drink it in the temples of their gods!” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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