Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:14:
- Kupsabiny: “Leaders are now staggering/groping around on the roads
like blind people,
who have killed (people) until no person wanted to
go near and touch them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “Now they wander in the streets groping like blind men.
They have become unclean because of the shed blood.
No one even dares to touch their clothing.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “And now they are groping in the streets like blind. Their clothes were stained with blood, therefore no one dare to touch them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The prophets and priests wandered through the streets
as though they were blind.
No one would touch them
because their clothes were stained with the blood of people who had been killed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
