Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Jeremiah 23:38)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:38:

  • Kupsabiny: “If you do not listen to me and say that you have a heaviness/burden of the word of God,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “and he said, ‘Yes, I have a message from the LORD.’ You (sing.) should tell him that this is what I say: ‘Because you (sing.) said that you (sing.) have a message from me, even-though I refrained you (sing.) from mentioning it,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “If he replies, ‘What I told you is a prophecy/message from Yahweh,’ you should say to him, ‘You have continued to say, ‘I received a prophecy/message from Yahweh’ even though I told you to not claim that you have received prophecies/messages from Yahweh.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 23:39)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:39:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall take you to be a burden to me and I shall throw you far away. I shall turn my back on the city that I gave you and your forefathers.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will- surely -forget you (sing.) and drive-away from my presence. And I will-abandon this city that I gave to your (sing.) ancestors.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So I , Yahweh, will get rid of you false prophets. I will expel you from my presence. And I will get rid of this city that I gave to you and to your ancestors.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 23:40)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 23:40:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will cause you shame forever and you will be disgraced for years and years without (it) being forgotten.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will- surely -put- you (plur.) -to-shame forever/[lit. until whenever], that can- never -be-forgotten.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will cause people to make fun of you forever. People will never forget that you were disgraced.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:1:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then, God showed me two baskets of figs that were placed in front of the House of God. (This took place after Nebuchadnezzar who was the king of Babylon had taken Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim that king of Judah. (He) went with (him )being prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylon, together with the leaders of Judah, the craftsmen and other workers who had experience/were skilled.)” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD has-shown me a vision after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babilonia took-captive Jehoyakin of Juda, the child of Jehoyakim. Jehoyakin was-taken to Babilonia as-well-as his officials and the skilled carpenters and workers. What I saw in my vision (are/were) two baskets of fig which is there before/[lit. in front of] the temple of the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and his officials, and all his skilled workers and took them to Babylon. After that happened, Yahweh gave me a vision. In the vision I saw two baskets of figs that had been placed in front of the temple.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “In the first basket there were good figs like the first figs of the year. The other basket had some very bad figs that could not be eaten.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The figs in one basket (are/were) very good and ripe, which were- just -picked. But the figs in the other basket were very bad and can- not -be-eaten at-all/[emphatic marker].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “One basket was full of good figs, like the kind that ripen first. The other basket was filled with figs that were bad/rotten, with the result that they could not be eaten.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then God asked me, ‘What have you seen, oh, Jeremiah?’ I answered, ‘I am seeing figs. The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so completely bad that they cannot be eaten.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then the LORD said to me, ‘Jeremias, what do you (sing.) see?’ I replied, ‘Figs. Some very good, but the others very bad and can- not -be-eaten at-all/[emphatic marker].’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Jeremiah, what do you see?’
    I replied, ‘I see some figs. Some are very good ones, but some are very bad, with the result that no one would eat them.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:4:

  • 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)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “I the God of Israel am saying, ‘The people who were taken to go to Babylon are like the good figs.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘I, the LORD, the God of Israel, am-saying that I will-consider like the good figs the Israelinhon whom I caused-to-be-taken-captive by the ones from-Babilonia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘This is what I, Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli people say that they worship, say: ‘The good figs represent the people of Judah whom I exiled to Babylonia.” (Source: Translation for Translators)