Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Zephaniah 1:9:
- Kupsabiny: “I shall punish all the people who pray to idols and who fill their houses of prayer with things of theft and plunder (things).’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “On that day, I will punish
everyone who jumps over the bottom of a doorframe
the temple of their gods
violence and did fraud works.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Burmese (translation by A. Judson): “Also on that day I will examine all those who fill their master’s house with goods gained through crossing the thresholds of other people’s houses and using force and deceit.” (Source: John Hans de Jong in The Bible Translator 2017, p. 64ff. )
- Hiligaynon: “I will- also -punish on that day all who follow the ceremonies of those- (who) -do- not -acknowledge me and those-(who) act-cruelly/violently and deceitfully in-order-to fill-up with things/possessions the house of their master.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
