Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 22:3:
- Kupsabiny: “‘I God am saying that you (plur.) are to do what is right and true. Rescue those who are robbed of their things by those who use force against them. Do not do anything bad or upsetting to a foreigner/visitor, orphans, or women who are widows, and do not kill a person who has done no mistake in this land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This is what the LORD is-saying: [You (plur.)] do what is just and right. You (plur.) help the ones-who-have-been-robbed; [you (plur.)] save them from the ones-who-oppress them. [You (plur.)] do not do bad or mistreat the orphans/parentless, widows, and the non-Israelinhon who live with you (plur.). And [you (plur.)] do not also kill the innocent-ones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “to what Yahweh says: ‘Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil things. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here in Jerusalem those who are innocent/have not done things that are wrong.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 22:4:
- Kupsabiny: “If you have done like I have told you, the descendants of David shall continue to be kings. The kings together with leaders and their people shall continue to pass through the gates of this palace/house of rulership with/in those chariots and horses.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For if you (plur.) only obey these commands, there is always a king who is a descendant of David who will-reign here in Jerusalem. The king will-ride in chariots and (on) horses, and will-parade going-inside the entrance/gate of the palace together-with his officials and (his) people(here-meaning-those-who-work-under-him).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “If you obey those commands carefully, there will always be some descendant of King David who will be ruling here in Jerusalem. The king and his officials and other people will ride through the gates of the city in chariots and on horses.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 22:5:
- Kupsabiny: “But if you refuse to obey what I am saying, I God swear to destroy this palace to pieces. It is I God who have spoken.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But if you (plur.) will- not -obey these commands, I will-swear to myself that this palace will-be-destroyed.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But if you refuse to pay attention to those commands, I, Yahweh, solemnly declare, with myself as a witness, that this palace will become a pile of rubble.’ ’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 22:6:
- Kupsabiny: “God continues to say,
‘The house of rulership of Judah is beautiful
like Gilead and the top of the mountain of Lebanon,
but I will make the land be desolate
like cities where no one lives.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This is what the LORD is-saying concerning the palace of the king of Juda:
‘You (sing.) are beautiful as Gilead or the peak of the mountain of Lebanon for me. But very surely I will-make you (sing.) into a desert, like a town that no one lives (in).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And this is what Yahweh says about the king’s palace:
‘I like this palace, like I like the forests in the Gilead region
and the mountains in Lebanon.
But I will cause this palace to become a desert,
a place that no one lives in.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 22:7:
- Kupsabiny: “I will send people to come with axes
and (they) will go and tear down everything.
They shall fell the beautiful cedars
and then throw (them) in the fire.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-send-to you (sing.) people who will-destroy you (sing.). Each one of them has tools to cut-down your (sing.) cedar pillars, and then they will-throw them into the fire.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I will summon enemy troops who will destroy this palace;
each of their soldiers will use his own tools to wreck the building.
They will cut into pieces the beautiful big cedar beams
and throw them into a fire.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 22:8:
- Kupsabiny: “And when many people from other countries pass by there at this city, one will ask another, ‘Why did God do something like this to a big city like this?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The people who came from different nations who will-pass-by this city will-ask each-other, ‘Why did the LORD do this to this famous city?’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “People from many nations will walk past the ruins of this city and say to each other, ‘Why did Yahweh destroy this city that was very great?’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 22:9:
- Kupsabiny: “The others will answer, ‘It was done like this because they abandoned the covenant of their God and went to worship useless things.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And this is the answer, ‘Because they rejected the covenant of the LORD their God, and they worshipped and served other gods.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And other people will reply, ‘He did it because his people stopped obeying the agreement that they had made with Yahweh their God. Instead, they worshiped other gods.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 22:10:
- Kupsabiny: “You people of Judah, do not cry for king Josiah,
or mourn his death.
But cry for his son
that one who is being taken far away never to be seen again,
or/and (never) return to his country where he was born.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “People of Juda, [you (plur.)] do not cry for King Josia who is now dead, but [you (plur.)] cry loudly/(bitterly) for his child Jehoahaz who succeeded him as king of Juda. For he was-taken-captive and he can- not [intensifier] -return. He will- no longer -see again the land of his birth. For the LORD himself has-said that he can- never[intensifier] -return.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh also says, ‘Do not mourn for King Josiah;
do not cry because he has died.
Instead, mourn for King Jehoahaz, his son,
because he will be captured and taken to another country,
and he will never return to see his own country, Judah, again.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
