Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:15:
- Kupsabiny: “Fire will consume you and you will be killed with swords and die like leaves that army worms have eaten. You have multiplied until you are now as many as locusts.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But whatever you do, the fire will consume you.
You will be killed by the sword,
it will eat you like the locust.
Even if you become numerous like grasshoppers
there will be no escape.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “But there in your (plur.) very-own place you (plur.) will-die through fire and sword, like the fields which have-been-attacked by the locusts.
You (plur.) became-many like locusts!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation) - English: “Nevertheless, your enemies will burn your city;
they will kill you with their swords;
they will kill you like locusts destroy crops.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
