Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will take care of them until I return them to come to this land. Those people will be built up and I do not make them fall. I will make them put down roots and I will not uproot (them).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will- watch-over them so-that their situation will-be good, and I will-bring them back to this land. I will-cause- them again -to-rise-up and not be-destroy. I will-strengthen them and will- not -uproot.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will watch over/take care of them well, and some day I will bring them back here to Judah. I will establish them and cause them to be strong. I will cause them to be prosperous , and I will not exile them again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will strengthen them so that they will know that I am God. They will become my people, and I will become their God, because they will return to where I am in one stomach.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-give them a desire that they will-acknowledge me that I am the LORD. They will-become my people, and I will-become their God, for they will-return to me with all their heart.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will enable them to desire to know that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me sincerely.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “But I God am saying, ‘The figs that are rotten are like king Zedekiah of Judah together with his leaders and all the other people of Jerusalem who remained there and those who migrated to the land of Egypt. I will throw those people away like the figs that are not edible.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘But I will-consider like the bad figs that can- not -be-eaten King Zedekia of Juda and his officials, as-well-as all the Israelinhon who were left alive in Jerusalem or in Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But I, Yahweh, also say, ‘The bad figs represent Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his officials, and all the other people who remain in Jerusalem, and those who have gone to Egypt. I will do to them like people do to rotten figs.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will destroy them so much that they instill fear in all other nations in the world. They will be mocked, persecuted, laughed at, and insulted in every place that I will chase them to.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-make them detestable to all the kingdoms on the earth. They will-be-belittled/looked-down-on and despised, mocked/ridiculed and cursed in all the places where I will-expel- them -to.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will get rid of them, with the result that people in every nation on the earth will be horrified, and will hate them because they are evil people. Wherever I scatter them, people will make fun of them, and say that they are disgraced, and ridicule them, and curse them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 24:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 24:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will send to them war, famine and sicknesses to destroy (them) until not even one is left in this land that I gave to them and their forefathers.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-send them war, famine, and diseases until they will-be-destroyed in the land that I gave to them and to their ancestors.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “And I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases, until they have disappeared from this land which I gave to them and to their ancestors.’’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 25:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 25:1:

  • Kupsabiny: “And it was the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah ruling in the land of Judah and it was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar ruling in Babylon. The word of God came to me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “This message which is for the people of Juda was-given by the LORD to Jeremias in the fourth year reign of Jehoyakim the child of Josia in Juda. This is the first year of Nabucadnezar’s reign in Babilonia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “After Jehoiakim had been ruling Judah for almost four years, Yahweh gave me this message for all the people of Judah. It was during the year that King Nebuchadnezzar started to rule in Babylon.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 25:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 25:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then I said to all the people of Judah together with those of Jerusalem,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Prophet Jeremias said to all the people of Juda as-well-as to all who live in Jerusalem:” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I spoke this message to all the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah:” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 25:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 25:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “In the thirty three years that have passed since the thirteenth year of the rulership of Josiah son of Amon, the king of Judah until today, God has often (again and again) spoken to me and I have also spoken to you often, but you have not listened.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For a period/[lit. inside] of 23 years — from the 13th year of Josia child/son of Amon reign in Juda until now — the LORD was-speaking to me. And I continue to tell you (plur.) what he is-saying, but you (plur.) did- not -listen at-all.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘Yahweh has been giving me messages for 23 years. He started giving me messages when Josiah, the son of Amon, had been ruling Judah for almost 13 years. And I have faithfully told you those messages, but you have not paid any attention to them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)