complete verse (Revelation 18:20)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:20:

  • Uma: “Be glad, inhabitants of heaven, over its destruction! Be glad, followers of God, his apostles and prophets! For God punishes the Babel people, paying-back-for-you their evil deeds against you.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “So-then, be glad you who are in heaven because that city is destroyed. Be glad God’s people and his apostles and the prophets who make God’s message known, because God has sent his judgment to that city because of the bad she did to you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “You inhabitants of heaven, rejoice over the punishment of that great city. Rejoice also you prophets, and apostles, and believers in God, because God has punished that city because of its persecutions to you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “You who are in heaven, be-happy. You who are God’s people, apostles and prophets, be-happy also, because the legal-accusations of that city against you, God has reversed (them), and he has judged and punished them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “You (pl.) there in heaven, be very glad about this which has happened to her/it. You prophets and apostles and others of God’s people, you can now be glad. Because God has paid back the people from Babilonia for the things they did to you.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Let all who live in heaven rejoice over what the city went through. Let the representatives of Christ along with all the spokesmen of God rejoice. All the rest of the people who are in the hand of God, let all of them rejoice. Concerning the punishment given to this city, it is God who judged it for what it did to you.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
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