Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:5:
- Kupsabiny: “Days are coming when I shall make a righteous Branch shoot up from the house of David. He shall rule with wisdom and do what is right/true/just and righteous in the land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD still said, ‘The time will-come that I will-cause-to-reign a righteous king who is a descendant of David. He will-reign with wisdom, and he will-do what is just and right in this land.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh also says,
‘Some day I will appoint for you a righteous man
who will be a descendant of King David.
He will be a king who rules wisely.
He will do what is just and right throughout the land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:7:
- Kupsabiny: “So I God am saying that days are coming when people shall no longer say, ‘I swear by the God who brought the people of Israel out from the land of Egypt,’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘And at that time also the people will- no longer -swear saying, ‘I swear to the living LORD who caused- the Israelinhon -to-come-out of Egipto.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh also says that at that time, people who are solemnly promising to do something will no longer say, ‘I will do it as surely as Yahweh lives, who rescued the Israeli people from Egypt.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:8:
- Kupsabiny: “but those people shall swear, ‘I swear by the God who brought the people of Israel out from the land of the side of North and all the countries that he had scattered them to.’ And then they shall live in their own land.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Instead, they will-say, ‘I swear to the living LORD who caused- the Israelinhon -to-come-out of the nation in the north and of all the nations where he scattered them.’ Then they will-live in their own land.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Instead, they will say, ‘I will do it as surely as Yahweh lives, who brought us Israeli people back to our own land, from the land to the northeast and from all the other countries to which he had exiled us.’ And they will live in their own land again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:9:
- Kupsabiny: “But concerning the prophets,
my stomach/heart is hurting.
I am trembling much
and I am like a drunkard
whom beer is ruling,
on account of God and his holy words.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “As-if my heart is-going-to-break because of the lying prophets. My bones are-shaking/trembling, and as-if I am drunk because of the holy message of the LORD against them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I am very shocked because of the sacred message that Yahweh has spoken about what will happen to the false prophets;
it is as though all my bones shake.
I stagger like a man who is drunk
after drinking a lot of wine.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:10:
- Kupsabiny: “There are not a few people who do not trust in God
so God has cursed (them).
And now the pasture is dried up
and the land is in mourning.
The prophets are going around committing sin
and they use their power badly.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The land is very full of the people who worship little-gods, for the prophets are-doing wickedness and abuse their power. Because of this the LORD cursed the land, so it became-dry and the plants withered.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The land is full of people who commit adultery;
and Yahweh has cursed the land.
Even the pastures in the desert are all dried up,
because the people do what is evil,
and the false prophets use their power to do things that are not just/fair.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:11:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying,
The prophets and also the priests do not believe in me.
They bring their sin into my house.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For this is what the LORD is-saying: The priests are also like the prophets. They are not godly and they do wickedness even in my temple itself.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh says, ‘Yes, even the priests and the prophets are ungodly;
they do wicked things even in my temple.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Their paths will be slippery and darkness covers/closes them.
They will be made to stumble and fall.
The days when those people shall be punished are coming
so I shall send to (them) disaster so they are destroyed.
It is I God who has spoken.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore their path will-become slippery and dark. They will-stumble and fall-down, for I will-send them destruction in times that I will-punish them. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Therefore, it will be as though the paths that they walk on are slippery.
It will be as though they are being chased in the darkness,
and there they will fall down,
because I will cause them to experience disasters
at the time that I will punish them.
That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:13:
- Kupsabiny: “I have seen the sin of the prophets of Samaria.
They spoke on behalf of Baal and then
they made my people get lost (confused the heads).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I saw that the prophets of Samaria were terribly wicked, for they prophesy in the name of Baal and they have-led-astray my people Israelinhon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Previously I saw that the prophets in Samaria were doing something that was wrong;
they were prophesying, saying that Baal gave them the messages that they were proclaiming,
and they were deceiving my people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
