Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 15:3:
- Kupsabiny: “They shall put on clothes of tears and walk around in the cities.
People shall wail in every home.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “They sit by the road wearing [lit.: having put on] sackcloth.
Weeping and mourning they sit on the roof terraces of [their] houses and in [the chowks] weeping and mourning.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “They wear sackcloth while walking on the street. They cry loudly on the top of their houses and in the plazas.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “In the streets people will wear rough sackcloth,
and on their flat rooftops and in the city plazas everyone will wail,
with tears streaming down their faces.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
