Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 9:26:
- Uma: “‘Long ago God said to them: ‘You aren’t my portion,’ But the time will come when it will be said to those people: ‘You are really the children of God who Lives!’ ‘” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And there in the land where I had told them that they are not my people there also I will tell them that they are the children of me, me (I) the God who lives.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there’s also a word of God where He says, ‘As for these people who are not Jews, it will be possible that there in the town where I told them that they were not by subjects, I the God who has no death, I will name them just the same, my children.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “In the very place moreover where I told them they were not my people, they will be called the children of the living God.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the dwellers in that location where God told the people ‘You are not my people,’ it is there afterwards that he said: ‘Concerning God who lives, you are his children now.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Hosea 1:10.
