Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Psalm 74:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 74:7:

  • Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
    “They set on fire your sacred place to a point of bringing it down;
    they defiled the dwelling place of your name.” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Newari:
    “Destroying Your temple, [they] set [it] on fire.
    [They] made your holy place impure.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon:
    “They burned your (sing.) temple;
    they defiled/[lit. dirtied] this dwelling-place of yours (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Laarim:
    “They burned your House completely.
    They destroyed the place where you stay of your names.” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
  • Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
    “Wamepachoma na moto patakatifu paako,
    wamepanajisi mahali pa jina lako.” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
  • English:
    “Then they burned your temple to the ground; they caused that place where you were worshiped to be unfit for people to worship in.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Psalm 76:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 76:6:

  • Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
    “On your rebuke, You God of Jacob,
    horse together with cart they stay quite while lying down.” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Newari:
    “O God of Jacob, When you rebuke [them] once
    their horses and riders all become like dead ones.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon:
    “O God of Jacob, at your (sing.) rebuke the horse-riders and their horses have-died.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Laarim:
    “God of Jacob, when you shout,
    the horses and the chariot stops.” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
  • Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
    “Ee Mungu wa Yakobo, wakati umewakemea,
    farasi na ambao walipanda wakaanguka chini na kufa.” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
  • English:
    “When you, the God whom Jacob worshiped, rebuked your enemies,
    the result was that their horses and their riders fell down dead.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Psalm 78:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 78:6:

  • Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
    “so that the next generation be able to know,
    even the children who are not yet born,
    and that they will explain to their children also.” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Newari:
    “So that those who came later might be able to know these things,
    so that they might also be able to tell their children, He did like this.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon:
    “so-that the next generation would- also -know these,
    and they could-teach these also to their children.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Laarim:
    “so that their children would know
    who will be born his Law,
    and they would teach his Law also to their children.” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
  • Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
    “ili watu wa katika kizazi ambacho kitakuja wajue,
    nao watoto wao ambao bado kuzaliwa,
    waje watangaze kwa watoto wao.” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
  • English:
    “in order that their children would also know them
    and then they would teach them to their children.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Psalm 78:38)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 78:38:

  • Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
    “However He was merciful;
    he forgave their iniquities
    and he did not destroy them.
    Time and time He turned back his anger
    and he did not arose all his wrath.” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Newari:
    “Because He was merciful, He forgave them.
    He did not destroy them.
    Many times He restrained (lit.: killed) His anger.
    He did not pour out His anger.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon:
    “Yet in-spite-of this, God (was) still merciful to them.
    He forgave their sins and he did- not -destroy them.
    Many times he restrained his anger even-though he (was) very angry.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Laarim:
    “But he was merciful to them,
    and he forgave their sin,
    and he did not kill them.
    He stops his anger many times,
    and was not completely angry.” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
  • Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
    “Lakini yeye, kwa sababu yuko na huruma,
    aliwasamehe dhambi zao, hakuwangamiza.
    Mara nyingi alizuia hasira zake,
    hakuzidisha kuchukia.” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
  • English:
    “But God was merciful to his people.
    He forgave them for having sinned and did not get rid of them.
    Many times he refrained from becoming angry with them
    and restrained from furiously/severely punishing them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Psalm 78:70)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 78:70:

  • Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
    “He chose David his servant
    and removed him between the kraals of sheep;” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Newari:
    “He chose his servant David.
    He, having brought him from the sheep tending place,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon:
    “God chose David to-become his servant.
    He took him from his work which as/[linker] one-who-watches-over sheep and made (him) king of Israel, the people whom he possesses.
    David (was) like one-who-watches-over sheep,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Laarim:
    “He chose David to be his servant,
    who reared sheep,” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
  • Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
    “Akamchagua Daudi mtumishi wake,
    akamchukua kutoka katika mazizi ya kondoo.” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
  • English:
    “He chose David, who served him faithfully, and took him from the pastures” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Psalm 80:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 80:17:

  • Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
    “Let your hand be on a person who is on your right hand,
    the child of a person whom you have raised yourselves.” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Newari:
    “Having cared for the people You Yourself have chosen,
    save [them],
    the nation You have made strong.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon:
    “But now help us (excl.) whom you (sing.) chose to-become near to you (sing.) and made-firm/strong for your (sing.) praises,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Laarim:
    “You help the person who you love,
    the person whom you raised for yourself.” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
  • Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
    “Umpatie nguvu mtu ambaye unampenda,
    mwana wa ambaye umemteua.” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
  • English:
    “But strengthen us people whom you have chosen,
    us Israeli people whom you previously caused to be very strong.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Psalm 83:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 83:6:

  • Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
    “The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
    Moab and the Hagrites,” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Newari:
    “these Edomite and Ishmaelite people, Moabites and Hagrites,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon:
    “They are the Edomnon, the Ishmaelinhon, Moabnon, Hagarnon,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Laarim:
    “those people of Edom and of Ismail
    and of Moab and of Hagar,” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
  • Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
    “watu wa katika Edomu na Waeshimaeli,
    wamoabu na Wahagari,” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
  • English:
    “The people who have done that are the people of Edom region,
    the descendants of Ishmael who live on the east side of the Jordan River,
    the Moab people-group, the descendants of Hagar who also live on the east side of the Jordan River,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Psalm 85:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 85:8:

  • Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
    “I will listen to what Jehovah God will say;
    He promises peace to all his people, his (people) of a holy heart ,
    but do not allow them to return to evil.” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
  • Newari:
    “What the LORD says, that I will listen to.
    For He speaks peace to His faithful people.
    But let them not go again on the fool’s path.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon:
    “I will-listen to what the LORD God will-say,
    for he will-promise a good situation to his faithful people;
    that (is) if we (incl.) do- not -return to our (incl.) foolishness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Laarim:
    “I will hear the word which the LORD God will speak.
    He promises peace to his holy people,
    but they should not go back to sin again.” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
  • Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
    “Nitamsikiliza ambayo anasema Mungu,
    kwa maana BWANA amewahidi amani watu wake,
    wateule wake ambao wameondoka katika upumbavu.” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
  • English:
    “I want to listen to what Yahweh our God says, because he promises/says that he will enable us, his people, to live peacefully,
    if we do not return to doing foolish things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)