Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:1:

• Kupsabiny: “Then God spoke to me saying,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The LORD still said to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:2:

• Kupsabiny: “Do not marry in this place and produce children in this kind of land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘You(g)never take-a-wife or have-children in this place.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “‘Do not get married and have children in this land,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:3:

• Kupsabiny: “I will tell you what will come/happen to boys and girls that are produced here and what will come/happen to their parents.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “For I will-tell you (sing.) what will-happen to the children born in this place and to their parents.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “because this is what I, Yahweh, say about the children who are born in this city, and about their mothers and fathers:” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:4:

• Kupsabiny: “Bad sicknesses will kill (them), and no one will mourn or bury them. Their bodies will be heaped like dung in the land. Sword and famine will destroy those people and birds of prey and wild animals will eat their corpses.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They will-die from terrible diseases. No one will-mourn or bury them. Their corpses will-scatter on the grazing-field like dung. Some of them will-die from war and from famine, and their corpses will-be-eaten by the birds and wild animals.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Many of them will die from terrible diseases. And no one will mourn for them. No one will even bury their corpses; the corpses will lie on the ground, scattered like manure. Others will die in wars or from hunger, and then their corpses will become food for vultures and wild animals.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:5:

• Kupsabiny: “Do not enter any house where people are mourning or go and mourn or show mercy to those people. I will not give/bless my people with peace or love and mercy.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The LORD still said, ‘You (sing.) do not enter a house where there is someone who mourns for the dead. You (sing.) do not mourn or show your (sing.) compassion for anyone. For I already taken-out my blessing, love, and mercy from these people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “This is also what Yahweh said to me: ‘Do not go to funerals to mourn or to show those whose relatives have died that you feel sorry for them, because I have stopped protecting them, and I have caused that things will not go well for them. I have stopped faithfully loving them and acting mercifully toward them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:6:

• Kupsabiny: “All the people will die in this land including the big ones and the small ones. There is no one who will bury those people and no one who will mourn (them), and there is no one who will cut themselves or shave the head to show sorrow.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Anyone will-die in this land, either rich or poor, and no one will-bury them. No one will-wound himself or shave his head to show his mourning for the dead.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Very many people will die in this land, including those who are important and those who are not important. And no one will mourn for them, or even bury their corpses. No one will cut himself or shave his head to show that he is very sad.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:7:

• Kupsabiny: “No one will eat with the one who has lost his person/relative in order to overcome loneliness. No one will show compassion to another one even if a father or mother has died.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “No one will-give food or drink in-order to comfort the ones-who-mourn for the dead, even for the death of a father or mother.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “No one will bring food to comfort those who are mourning, not even if it is their father or their mother who has died. No one will give them a cup of wine to cheer them up.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 16:8:

• Kupsabiny: “Do not enter a house where there is a feast to eat and/or drink with those people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You (sing.) do not also enter a house where there is a feast and eat or drink there.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “And do not go into the houses where people are feasting. Do not eat or drink anything with them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)