Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 2:13:
- Kupsabiny: “What am I saying, and what have I said?
What shall I compare you with, calf of Jerusalem (young beautiful ladies)?
What shall I liken you to,
so that I can comfort you, oh Zion.
You have a big infection!
Who is going to save you?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O daughter Jerusalem, what shall I say to you?
To what can I compare you?
O virgin daughter Zion
To what can I compare you so that I can comfort you?
Your wound is deeper than the vast sea,
who can heal you?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Residents of Jerusalem, what can I say to you? To what can I compare your suffering? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You people of Jerusalem ,
what can I/there is nothing that I can say to help you.
No people have suffered like you are suffering;
I do not know what I can do to comfort you.
The disaster that you have experienced is as great
as the ocean is deep;
there is no one who can restore your city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 5:33:
- Kupsabiny: “Follow the words of your God well like he has told you so that you may live well in that country that you shall take to become yours.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Go on the path in accordance with all the commands that the LORD your God has given you. then You will be living and you will be prosperous in the land that you will possess, and you will have a long life.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) live according to what the LORD your (plur.) God had-commanded you (plur.) so-that you (plur.) will-live long and will-prosper there in the land that you (plur.) are-going-to-possess.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Conduct your lives as Yahweh our God has commanded us to do, in order that you may live a long time, and in order that things will go well for you when you are living in the land that you will occupy.’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 38:6:
- Kupsabiny: “Where did the pillars that support the world stick to
and who was it that laid the foundation where it is,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “What supports the earth?
Who laid its foundation stone?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “What supports the foundation of the earth? And who laid this foundation” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 29:30:
- Kupsabiny: “The son of Aaron who will inherit/take over from his father should become the high priest, and should put on these clothes for seven days when he is entering into my Tent to serve in the set aside place.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Aaron’s sacred garments will be for his descendants after him. And they must be consecrated wearing the same garments and being anointed. Aaron’s first son must wear those garments seven days before coming to the Tent of Meeting to serve in the holy place.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The descendants of Aaron who will-succeed him as leading priest will-wear these clothing/garments within seven days when he enters the Meeting-Together-Place Tent to serve in the Holy Place.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Bariai: “When a son of Aron’s takes his place and so becomes the great leader of offerings, he must put on these decorations for a duration of seven days. And in these seven days, he will enter into the interior of my shelter to the place which has a somewhat great mark of ownership, and then be doing my work.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Opo: “His child who will take place do his work who will enter sacred-place of Dwelling-Tent-of-God to thing do, he must wear those clothes with day seven.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
- English: “Aaron’s son who becomes The Supreme Priest and enters the Sacred Tent and performs rituals in the Holy Place must stay in the Sacred Tent, wearing these special clothes, for seven days.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Chronicles 10:14:
- Kupsabiny: “instead of asking God to show him. So, God killed Saul and turned his rulership over to David son of Jesse.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “He did not listen to the LORD and so the LORD, having killed him, gave the country to David, the son of Jesse.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “instead of him asking guidance from the LORD. So the LORD killed him and gave the kingdom to David the child of Jesse.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “instead of asking Yahweh what he should do. So Yahweh caused him to die, and he appointed David, the son of Jesse, to be the king of Israel.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 28:10:
- Kupsabiny: “Then Saul vowed/swore telling that woman that, ‘Truly in the name of God, nothing will eat/kill you.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Saul swearing an oath, said, "As surely as LORD lives, No difficulty will come into your life for doing this."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Saul swore to her, in the name of the living LORD, that she would- not -be-punished for doing this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Saul replied, solemnly asking Yahweh to listen to what he was saying, ‘Just as surely as Yahweh lives, you will not be punished for doing this.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 3:23:
- Kupsabiny: “His mercy is new every day
and he is the one to lean on.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “His mercy is renewed every morning.
How great is your faithfulness!” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD is very faithful. He shows his mercy every day.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He is the one whom we can always trust/lean on.
Every morning he is merciful to us again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Deuteronomy 7:7:
- Kupsabiny: “God did not love you and choose you because you were many more that other people. You were very small among all other people in the world.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD did not choose you and love you because you were more in number than other nations, [for] you are fewer in number than the other nations.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘The LORD chose you (plur.) and loved not because you (plur.) were more numerous than the other people-groups, for you (plur.) even were the fewest of all.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘t was not because you were more numerous than any other people-group that Yahweh preferred you; you are one of the smallest people-groups on the earth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
