Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Micah 3:11:
- Kupsabiny: “The leaders like bribes
and the priests ask for money as a bribe to teach.
The prophets want to be given something in order to show revelations.
They are saying that they are with God
so that nothing ever bothers them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “The leaders there will judge by taking bribes,
the priests there will teach for wages
and the prophets prophecy for money.
Though this is the case, depending on the LORD they are saying,
‘The LORD is living among us,
nothing bad can happen to us’” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) judge in-favor to-(the-one) giving you (plur.) a bribe. And you (plur.) priests, you (plur.) teach just because you (plur.) are-paid. You (plur.) too who (are) prophets, you (plur.) practice-divination just for money. You (plur.) also trust that the LORD will-help you (plur.), for you (plur.) say, ‘The LORD (is) with us (excl.). Therefore no evil/(harm) can-happen to us (excl.).’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Your leaders make favorable decisions only if they receive bribes.
Your priests teach people only if those people pay them well.
Your false prophets require people to pay them to tell people what will happen to them in the future.
Those prophets say, ‘Yahweh is telling us what we should say,
and we say that we will not experience any disasters.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
