Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 1:23:
- Kankanaey: “In that time, the Israelita will be like plants that I plant in their land and I will-cause-(them)-to-grow so that they will become my people. I will show-mercy to the people who were named ‘not shown-mercy’ in the past. I will count/consider as my people those who were named ‘not my people’ in the past and they will say in-the-future, ‘You (sing.) are our (excl.) God.’ ’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 11:7:
- Kupsabiny: “My people truly wants to refuse me.
They look to me but surely, I am not helping them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “My people insist on turning away from me.
Even though they call me the Most High,
I will not honor them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They who (are) my people are-determined to turn-away from me. Therefore even-if they will-call upon me in unity I will- not -save them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Truly they persist in turning-their-backs on me. Even-though how-many ways/occasions the prophets advise them to return to me the Highest God, they nevertheless do not acknowledge-me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “My people are determined to turn away from/abandon me.
They say that I am the great all-powerful God,
but they do not honor me at all.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 1:5:
- Kupsabiny: “Wake up and cry oh, you drunkards.
Let those who are drinking wine shout loudly.
Shout (plur.) on account of the sweet wine
because those vine plants the wine was made from are finished.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Hey you drunkards, wake up and cry out loud!
All you who drink wine wail!
Because from now on the wine will not reach your mouth.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) who (are) drunkards, [you (plur.)] rise-up and cry loudly! For you (plur.) have-nothing to-drink now; no more grapes to be-made into new wine.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Wake-up/Get-up you drunkards! Cry, because the grapes that they would have used to make new alcoholic-beverage (wine, beer, or commercial liquor; the word for rice-wine does not collocate with grapes) have already been ruined.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 3:3:
- Kupsabiny: “and distributed to themselves my people by throwing of dice. Those people used boys to buy/pay for prostitutes, and they used girls to buy/pay for wine they could drink.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “They cast lots for my people.
And they sold boys into prostitution.
Young girls they sold for wine to drink.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They cast-lots for my people in-order to divide- (them) -up, and they sold the male and female children as slaves, in-order-that they could-pay-for drinks and women who sell their bodies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They caused-to-be-chosen-by-lot who would take my people to be their prisoners. They sold the children who were males and females so-that they would have the means-to-pay for prostitutes and alcoholic-beverage.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “and they threw marked stones/cast lots to determine who would get each of my people.
Then they sold some of the Israeli boys and girls
to get money to pay for prostitutes and wine to drink.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jonah 2:5:
- Kupsabiny: “The water of the ocean was engulfing me.
Water was above/on top of me.
Ropes wrapped themselves around my head
which (plur.) grew inside the sea.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The water came up to my neck.
It seemed that the ocean would swallow me.
The seaweed [Lit.: ocean grass] wrapped around my head.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The water rose-above me and (it) seemed that I was- almost -about-to-drown.
The water covered me and my head was-entangled/wrapped-around by a plant in the sea.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I sank and I was not able-to-breathe. I was totally submerged by water and my head was wrapped-around with weeds of the ocean.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “The water surrounded me, and threatened to drown me. Seaweed was wrapped around my head.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Habakkuk 1:6:
- Kupsabiny: “I am going to raise up the people of Babylon to get power over all the world. That community are people who like chaos/revolt and are very disobedient. They will overrun the whole world and rule (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Look! I am raising up the Babylonians,
that cruel and reckless nation.
They spread everywhere on the earth to
snatch away other people’s dwelling places.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For I will-cause- the Babylonians -to-rule. These people (are) very cruel and they rush to attack other nations in-order to seize places not their-own.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I will-cause-to-rule in-the-future the cruel/malicious and impetuous ones-from-Babilonia and their soldiers will go-around the entire earth to snatch what is not theirs.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “But soon all those whom they have captured will ridicule the soldiers from Babylonia!
They will make fun of them, saying,
‘Terrible things will happen to you who have stolen things from other countries!
You got many things by forcing people to give them to you.
But you certainly will not keep those things for a long time !’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Malachi 1:2:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying, ‘I have loved you (plur.).’ But you (plur.) are saying are saying, ‘How are you showing that you loved us?’ God is saying, ¨Esau and Jacob were brothers but I loved Jacob” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD says to his people, "I have always loved you."
"But you say, ‘How have you loved us?’
The LORD says, "Was not Esau Jacob’s older brother? But I chose your ancestor Jacob.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD said, ‘I love you (plur.). But you (plur.) still ask, ‘How do you (sing.) love us (excl.)?’ [You (plur.)] remember even-though Esau and Jacob (were) brothers, I loved Jacob” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He said, ‘Constantly I have-shown my love to you, but you say, ‘How have you (sing.) shown your (sing.) love to us (excl.)?’ ’ And-so God said, ‘Esau and Jacob were an older-younger-sibling-unit, but I showed my love to Jacob and his descendants” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh says, ‘I have always loved you Israeli people.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Malachi 3:3:
- Kupsabiny: “He will be like a person who melts silver as he is purifying (it). He will purify the Levites like when a person purifies gold or silver so that they may do for God sacrifices that are right.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He is like the purifier of silver. He will purify the Levites and make them pure like gold and silver. At that point the Levites will again be able to offer fitting offerings to the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But who will-be-able-to endure/[lit. suffer] the day of his arrival? Who will-be-able-to-bear when he (is) to-appear now? For he (is) like fire that refines/purifies a metal or like a soap that cleanses. He will-clean the priests who (were) the descendants of Levi like the refining/purifying of silver and gold, so-that their lives will-become righteous as they offer to the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He will come to judge and he will clean the Levita like the way one cleans gold and silver by-means-of fire so-that they will-be-righteous/just to offer-(something) to God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “He will be like a worker who sits in front of his work to cause silver to become pure by burning all the impurities. Like a worker refines silver and gold, he will cause the descendants of Levi/priests to become pure, in order that they will again become acceptable to offer sacrifices that will be acceptable to him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
