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)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Zephaniah 1:15:
Kupsabiny: “On that day God will show his anger. Great (is) the suffering and pain on that day. The land will be ruined and destroyed. Darkness will come to overshadow the land/world because dark clouds will cover (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Newari: “That day will be a day of angry, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and destroyed a day of darkness and not happiness, a day of clouds and very blackness,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
Burmese (translation by A. Judson): “That day is a day of anger,
a day of suffering affliction and distress,
a day of wiping out and destruction,
a day of concealed light and darkness,
a day of cloud cover and overspreading thick darkness,” (Source: John Hans de Jong in The Bible Translator 2017, p. 64ff. )
Hiligaynon: “That is the day that God will-show his anger. That day of difficulty, pain/anguish, destruction, and defeat. That day (is) dark and has-dark-rain-clouds,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
