complete verse (Revelation 16:19)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 16:19:

  • Uma: “The big village named Babel was split into three parts and villages all over the world were destroyed. And God paid-back the sins of the people of that big village Babel. He forced them to drink the drink of his anger: he was furiously angry with them with no gentleness.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Na, immediately the famous city broke into three parts and all the cities in the countries were destroyed. Then God remembered the sin in the famous city called Babilon. The people there were figuratively given by God the grape juice in his glass to drink, that is, he made them feel his wrath.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And the large city Babylon was broken in three parts, and the cities in every kingdom were destroyed. God didn’t forget the city of Babylon, and He caused the inhabitants there to drink the wine in His cup, which is to say, He let them experience His very frightful anger.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The large city split-into-three (lit. threed) and all cities on this earth were also destroyed. So it is true that God didn’t forget to punish the inhabitants in the large city Babilonia, but rather he caused-them -to-drink all of the alcoholic-beverage which is the illustration of the fearful punishment that is the outcome of his anger.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “That’s why that famous city of Babilonia was divided into three parts and then destroyed. And all the cities here under the heavens were also destroyed. For God had fulfilled what he had promised concerning the punishment of those people of Babilonia. He really caused them to experience very much his far-from-ordinary anger. As for that anger of his, it’s like a cupful which he made them drink completely.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Concerning the city Babylon, three parts were made by the land splitting. All the cities all over the earth fell down. God thus gave payment to the city Babylon, sending punishment in his anger.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Romans 12:7)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 12:7:

  • Uma: “The person who has the ladle to help others must really help. The person who has the ladle to teach, he must really teach.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “If we (dual) are given skill to help our (dual) fellows, we (dual) ought to help them. If the skill he gives us (dual) is to preach/teach (religious things), we (dual) ought to preach/teach (religious things).” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And if what is given to us is the ability to help our companions, it is necessary that we persevere in helping. And if we have ability to teach the word of God, then let us carefully teach.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “If your (sing.) ability is your (sing.) serving your (sing.) companions, serve properly. If your (sing.) ability also is your (sing.) teaching the word of God, do-a-good-job-of teaching.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “There are people who have been given the work to help their fellowmen. And it is necessary that will all their hearts they help them. There are people who have been given the work to teach God’s word. And it is necessary that they teach well.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 13:10)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:10:

  • Noongar: “One Sabbath Day, Jesus was teaching people in the Synagogue.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “One time, Yesus was teaching at the house of prayer on the Sabat Day, the worship day of the Yahudi people.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “One Saturday, the day of-no-work, Isa was in the prayer-house of the Yahudi preaching.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And on one Saturday, Jesus was teaching in the church of the Jews. Now Saturday, that’s the day that God commanded long ago to the Jews, that no one should work on that day because it was the day of rest.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “There was one Saturday which was a day for-resting and Jesus was teaching in the synagogue.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Once on a Day of Rest, Jesus was teaching in a worship-place.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Revelation 18:12)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:12:

  • Uma: “Their merchandise were many kinds. There was gold, silver, gems [lit., eyes of rings], and pearls. There were fine clothes that were made from expensive cloth/thread, bright red and purple cloth. There were things made from fragrant wood, things made from ivory [Indonesian: gading], and other things made from expensive wood or from brass, iron, or alabaster [Indonesian: pualam].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Nobody will buy from them gold, silver, valuable precious-stones and pearls. Nobody will buy the expensive cloths, purple and red clothes/material and silk. Nobody will buy the different kinds of wood that are difficult to be found, and the different kinds of objects made of ivory, and expensive wood and brass and iron and stone called marble.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There is no longer anyone who can buy their merchandise; gold, silver, expensive stones, and pearls, good white cloth, and red cloth, and silk cloth, fragrant woods, things made of expensive wood and stone and ivorys and bronze and iron and marblestone,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “There is no one to buy their gold, silver, valuable stones, and pearls. Likewise the expensive materials (i.e. cloth) that they sell such as those whose color is blue and red. Neither is there anyone to buy their fragrant wood and the miscellaneous-things made from elephant (loan elefante) tusk, valuable woods, copper, iron and beautiful stone called marbel.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “There’s no-one now who will buy their gold and silver, the expensive mined stones and far-from-ordinary beads for body decoration, and the first-class cloth, silky cloth and that which has been dyed dark-blue/purple and red. There’s no-one for them to cause to buy their nice-smelling wood, and all kinds of things made from expensive wood, horn of elepante, bronze/copper, iron and first-class white stone.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “No one will buy the loads of gold or silver, or the little stones which are beautiful or pearls. They can’t sell the good cloth named line, or silk, or that of purple or red. They can’t sell the woods of different odors, nor the bone which is made into beautiful forms, or the good kinds of word, or bronze, or iron metal, or the stone which is marble.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Romans 14:4)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 14:4:

  • Uma: “That companion of ours is the Lord’s slave. Let’s not criticize the slave of another. If he is right/straight or wrong, that’s the business [lit., work] of his Lord [same word as master]. And that companion of ours will definitely be right/straight, for the Lord is able to make him right/straight.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Who are you (pl.) that you find-fault-with the servant of another person? You are not the ones for whom he is working, that’s why his master is the only one who has the right to think if that person’s doing hits-the-mark/is right or not. Indeed that man does not fall, (idiom for: he will be all right, he will not fall) because our (incl.) Leader helps him so that his doing is not wrong.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “It’s not allowable for us (incl.) to check up on the activities of another person, because his master will be the one to check up on him to see whether he has carried out what he was supposed to do or not. And in the same way also it’s not allowable that we check up on the behavior of our fellow believer, because the one who checks up on him is God. Certainly he will have obeyed what God wanted him to do, because God helps him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Therefore you (sing.) who accuse-your (sing.) companion -of-sin, you have no right to do that to the servant of another. Because Jesus who is his Lord/Master is responsible to say whether what he is doing is right or not right. And what he is doing will of course be approved as right, because the Lord Jesus is able to help him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “Just who do you think you are that you say that it is bad how one is working when he is working for someone else? The boss of the worker is the one to say whether his worker does good or not. But the person who is a believer will end up well because his Lord has all the power so that what he does will be able to turn out well.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Luke 14:7)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:7:

  • Noongar: “Jesus saw a few people taking the best seats, so he told them all this parable.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “At the house of that Parisi person, Yesus saw that there were guests who wanted to sit in seats of honor. That is why he taught them with this parable.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Isa noticed the people who had been invited that they chose the seats for the great/important people. Therefore he told them a parable, he said,” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there were also there some people who had been invited by the Pharisee, and when they sat down to eat, Jesus noticed that the people chose to sit down in the good seats where the people who were high in rank were caused to sit. And because of this, Jesus allowed them to hear his teaching. He said,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Jesus saw that some of those the Pharisee had invited had chosen the best places-to-sit, so he advised them all saying,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Jesus observed that those invited to that feast/meal were choosing the seats where the important are seated. So he used an illustration, saying,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

complete verse (Revelation 19:20)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 19:20:

  • Uma: “But instead, that evil animal along with the lying prophet were captured and the two of them were thrown alive into the sea of fire that blazes and glows/has-coals. The lying prophet [mentioned] earlier, he is the one who did/does surprising signs with the power/authority of the evil animal. From those surprising things he deceived the people who had the sign of that animal and who worshipped his idol.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “The creature was caught and the prophet who is not a true one, the one who did the amazing deeds by the authority/power given to him by the creature. Because of the amazing deeds that he did, he was able to deceive hep the ones who had been marked with the mark of the creature and those who worshiped the statue of the creature. The creature and the false prophet were thrown, still living, into the sulphur fire, the fire that is wide/large like a lake.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The beast was captured and the prophet of Satan was also captured, he who showed miracles before the beast. (By means of these miracles all the people who were marked with the mark of the beast and who worshipped the image of the beast, he deceived them so that they might believe in the beast.) And the beast and the prophet Satan were thrown still alive in the lake which flames with sulphur.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But the fearsome animal and the lying prophet who had previously shown amazing signs in his serving that animal were caught. These signs are what-he-used-to-deceive the people who were marked with the mark of the fearsome animal and who worshipped the animal-image that was his likeness. These two who were still living, they were thrown into the wide pool which is the place of flaming sulfur.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But that monster was taken captive. Taken captive also was that deceiving prophet who was caused by that animal to do amazing things. Those amazing things are what he used in his deceiving of the people who were branded with the mark of that monster and who worshipped his image. Well what else but as for those two who had been taken captive, they were thrown alive into that lake of leaping-flames of burning asupri.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “This terrible animal then was made a prisoner. Along with him was made a prisoner the lying prophet, that one who had done miracles before with the power given by the terrible animal. Because these miracles done by the lying prophet had deceived the hearts of the people who had let themselves get the mark of the terrible animal and let themselves worship his idol. Therefore this terrible animal and also the lying prophet together were thrown into the lake which burns fiercely with fire of sulphur.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)

complete verse (Romans 15:13)

Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 15:13:

  • Uma: “God is indeed our hope! That’s why I cry-out to God, I request that he give you happiness and peace [goodness of life] that is complete, from your faith in the Lord Yesus. I request that he strengthen your hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit so that your hoping in Him will grow stronger-and-stronger” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “God is the source of your hope/expectation. May he give you happiness/joy and peace because of your trust in him so that your expectation/hope in God will be caused to increase by/through the power of God’s Spirit.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “As for God who is the source of all the good things that we are expecting; may He give you great joy and a peaceful situation because of your faith in Him. So that by means of the power of the Holy Spirit, your expectancy of all the good things you are going to receive in the future might be drawn tight.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “May God who is the source of our hope also give you extreme happiness and peace on account of your faith in him so that the persistence of your hope will be added-to even-more through the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “May God cause that you may completely rejoice and cause that you have peace in your hearts because you now believe in him. And may he cause that the Holy Spirit open your hearts so that you know better that it is true there will happen the good you await to happen.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)