Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:1:

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

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:2:

• Kupsabiny: “‘Go down to the house of a man who prepares pots so that I can show you something there.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘You (sing.) go to the potter’s house[lit. to the house who makes pot/s], and there I will-speak to you (sing.) my message.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “‘Go to the shop of the man who makes clay pots. I will give you a message there.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:3:

• Kupsabiny: “Then I went down to that home, and I found that man preparing/working at a thing for shaping pots.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Therefore I went to the potter’s house and I saw him making a clay-pot.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So I went to that shop, and I saw the man who makes pots. He was working at the wheel that he uses to form pots.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:4:

• Kupsabiny: “When the pot that he was working on became bad, he turned/changed that clay to become something else as his head had accepted.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If the shape of a clay-pot that he is making is not good-enough, he redo it until he would like it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But when he finished making one jar, it was not as good as he hoped/wanted it to be. So, he took that clay and formed it into another jar, shaping it as he desired.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:5:

• Kupsabiny: “Then God said to me,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then the LORD said to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then Yahweh gave me this message:” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:6:

• Kupsabiny: “‘So then, people of Israel, am I not able to do to you like that man making pots? You should know that like the clay is in the hands of that person making pots, you also are like that in my hands.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) people of Israel, (it is) not so that I can do to you (plur.) what the potter had-done with the mud? As the mud is in the potter’s hand, so are you (plur.) in my hands.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “‘Perhaps the people of Israel think that I cannot do to them like this man who makes pots has done. But what they think is wrong. I can control what happens to them like this man controls what he does with the clay in his hands.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:7:

• Kupsabiny: “If I have said at any time that I am going to remove, destroy or crush any community or any rulership/kingdom,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If I declared already that a nation or kingdom will-be-fallen and destroyed,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “There may be a time when I proclaim that I will get rid of a nation or kingdom, like someone pulls up a plant with its roots, and smashes it, and destroys it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 18:8:

• Kupsabiny: “and then if that community turns from its sin, I shall not do what I had said that I would do.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “and that nation or kingdom would-turn-away from her wickedness, I will- no longer -continue the destruction that I had-planned for it/her.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But if the people of that nation repent of doing evil things, I will not send to them the disasters that I planned to send.” (Source: Translation for Translators)