Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 8:2:
- Kupsabiny: “Those bones will be spread out in the sun, moon and all the stars that those people loved to serve so as to ask advice and they worshipped (them). Never shall those bones be gathered or buried but left to be lying all over.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then these will-be-scattered in the land, before the sun, moon, and stars which they loved, served, followed, asked/consulted, and worshipped. Their bones will- not -be-gathered and buried again, instead be-scattered in the ground as-if-like dung.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They will take out their bones from their graves and dishonor them by scattering them on the ground under the sun and the moon and the stars—
those are the gods which my people loved and served and worshiped.
No one will gather up their bones and bury them again;
they will remain scattered on the ground like dung.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
