Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:22:

• Kupsabiny: “If they had known what I wanted
  or had announced my words to my people,
  it is something that would make them turn from sin
  and (they would) abandon their evil deeds.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But if they only know what is in my mind, they would have-proclaimed my words to my people, so-that they will-turn-away from their evil ways and deeds.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “If they had been in my council meetings,
  they would have been able to speak messages from me,
  and they would have caused people to turn away from committing evil things.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:24:

• Kupsabiny: “So is it possible for a person to hide himself
  so that I am unable to see (him) at all?
  Don’t you know
  that I have filled heaven/up and earth/down?
  It is me God who has spoken.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “No one can-hide in secret places that I could not see. Did you not know that I am everywhere in heaven and on earth? I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So, no one can hide in some secret place
  with the result that I cannot see him.
  I am everywhere, in heaven and on the earth!
  That is what I, Yahweh, say!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:25:

• Kupsabiny: “I have heard what these prophets of lying were saying in my name. They say, ‘I have had a dream, I have had a dream!’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘I have-heard what the prophets have-spoken who spoke lies in my name. They say that I gave as-it-is-told them some messages in a dream.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I have heard those prophets prophesy lies, saying that they are telling people messages from me. They say, ‘Listen to me tell you the dream that God gave me last night! I really had this dream!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:26:

• Kupsabiny: “For how long will these prophets of lying continue with these words who only speak what is in their thoughts/minds?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “How long they will-speak lies that come from their deceitful heart?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “How long will they continue to do this? How long will those lying prophets continue to prophesy things that come only from their own minds?” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:27:

• Kupsabiny: “They think that when they use those dreams it will make my people forget me like their forefathers forgot me and turned to Baal!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “By their telling of these dreams, they are pushing my people to forget me, just as their ancestors forgotten me by worshipping Baal.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They think that because of the dreams that they tell to each other, people will forget me, like their ancestors forgot about me when they started to worship Baal.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:28:

• Kupsabiny: “Let the one with dreams announce his dreams and the one who has my word, announce the word in one stomach. Hey, which is (most) important, the chaff or the wheat?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Let these prophets tell their dreams, but those prophets who have-heard my word should tell this with faithfulness. For their dream has difference from my word, just as a straw is different from the grain.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Allow those false prophets to tell people their dreams, but those who have messages that really come from me should proclaim those messages faithfully. I, Yahweh, say that like straw and grain are certainly very different, my messages and the messages from those false prophets are certainly very different.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:29:

• Kupsabiny: “My word is like a fire, and it is like a hammer that breaks a stone into pieces.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Is-it not my word powerful? This is like fire that can-burn or a hammer that can-smash a rock.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “It is as though my messages burn like a fire; they strike people’s inner beings like someone strikes a rock with a hammer and smashes it into pieces.” (Source: Translation for Translators)