Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:4:
- Kupsabiny: “Your sin has caused you to lose
that land which I gave you (plur.).
I will make you go and do work for your enemies
in a land you do not know,
because my anger has risen
like a fire that is not extinguished for many years.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The land which I gave to you (plur.) will-be-lost from you (plur.). I will-caused- you (plur.) -to-be-enslaved by your (plur.) enemies in the land you (plur.) do not know, because you (plur.) truly provoked- me -to-anger like a blazing fire that can- not -be-put-off.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:5:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying,
‘Cursed is the person who has abandoned me God
and has entrusted himself to something else,
or rely on the power of mere men.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD still said, ‘I will-curse a man who turns-away from me and trusts on man alone.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “This is also what Yahweh says:
‘I will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings to help them,
those who rely on their own strength
and turn away from me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:6:
- Kupsabiny: “That person is like a bush in the desert,
(he) will not receive anything of life/wellbeing when it has come.
(He) will grow slowly in a dried up land,
a land of salt which is inhabitable.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He is like a bush in the desolate-place that has no good future. He will-live in a dry and salty land that no one is dwelling/staying.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They are like dry bushes in the desert,
they are people who will not experience any good things.
Those people will live in the barren desert
in a salty area, where nothing grows.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:7:
- Kupsabiny: “But blessed is the person who trusts in God
and relies on him.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But blessed is the man who trusts in me, whose hope is in me alone.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But I am pleased with those who trust in me, Yahweh,
and who confidently expect me to take care of them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:8:
- Kupsabiny: “That person is like a tree that has been planted beside a stream
pushing its roots into that stream.
When the days of sun (shine) arrive it is not anxious
because its leaves are always green.
It is not troubled when it does not rain
but continues to produce fruits.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He is like a tree planted beside the stream, whose roots spread into the water. This tree does not fear when hot-season or a long dry-season comes. Its leaves are always green and does not cease to bear-fruit.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Those people are like fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank,
trees that have roots that go down into the wet ground beside the water.
They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot,
trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:9:
- Kupsabiny: “The heart of man is a deceiver beyond anything/everything
and it cannot be healed/treated
and no person knows/understands it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘The heart of a man is very deceitful and very wicked. No one can-fathom how wicked it is?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful,
and you cannot change that.
It is also completely impossible for anyone to understand that.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:10:
- Kupsabiny: “I God am checking/searching the thoughts of people
and I have seen how the life of a person is.
So/Therefore, I take/evaluate every person as/like his life is
according to how his actions are.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But I, the LORD, I know what is in the heart and mind of a person. I will-pay-back each one according to his/her ways and deeds.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being,
and I examine what they are thinking.
I will give all people rewards,
what they deserve for what they have done.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 17:11:
- Kupsabiny: “A person who gets money in a deceitful way is like
a bird that hatches eggs it did not lay.
Those things will separate from that person when he is still young
and it will be clear/seen later that he was indeed a fool.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A man who gained wealth by an evil way he is like a bird that lay on the egg that is not hers. Later on, in the midst of her living, her wealth will-disappear and it will-come-out that she is a fool.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that people who become rich by doing things that are unjust
are like birds that hatch eggs that they did not lay/stole from another nest.
So, when those people have lived only half of the years that they expect to live, their wealth will disappear.
Then other people will realize that those rich people have been foolish.” (Source: Translation for Translators)