complete verse (Hosea 9:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 9:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “Oh, God,
    what might you do to these people?
    Make their wives be barren.
    and not be nursing children.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “O LORD, give them punishment,
    what will you give them?
    Make their women barren,
    without children, and dry up their milk.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Hoseas said, ‘LORD, this is what (you are) going to do to your (sing.) people: Do- not -let their women give-birth or nurse an infant.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Yahweh, I do not know what I should ask for my people.
    So I ask that you do this one thing:
    Cause the women who are pregnant to have miscarriages
    and unable to nurse their babies.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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