complete verse (Revelation 14:3)

Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 14:3:

  • Uma: “They were singing, singing a kind of new song in front of the Seat of God and in front of the four living things and the elders around that Throne. Their song, no other person can/may learn it, just that one hundred forty-four thousand. They are the ones redeemed by the Lamb from among the people of the world.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “The one hundred and fortyfour thousand people stood there facing the throne of God and the four angels of-different-kind and the elders. They sang a new song and nobody could learn that song except they, the one hundred and fortyfour thousand, because they are the ones redeemed from the ruling of the leader of demons while they were still on earth.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And as for these people, they are before the seat of God, and they are also before the four creatures who have breath and before the elders. And then they sang a new song and the only ones who know how to sing the song are the one hundred and forty-four thousand people who were redeemed on the earth by the young sheep.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The one hundred and forty four thousand people were standing facing the throne and the four living creatures and leaders. They were singing a new song which no one else knew but they alone, because they are the ones who were redeemed from the world.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “As for that crowd, those one hundred and forty four thousand people, they were standing in the presence of God who was sitting on his seat of kingship, and in the presence of those four created living beings and also those twenty four elders. I heard that they were singing a new kind of song. No-one else knows that song, but only those, that crowd, for from all the people here in the world they are the ones who were chosen being like bought by that one referred to as Young Sheep so that they would be his people.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
  • Tenango Otomi: “They sang a new song before where God was seated there where the twenty-four surrounded him, where the four stood at each corner to his chair. This song they sang was one no one knows except only the one hundred and forty-four thousand, those people who had been saved on the earth.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)