Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:15:
- Kupsabiny: “You might say, ‘But God gave us prophets in Babylon,’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Perhaps you will-say that I sent you prophets there in Babilonia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Some of you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you there in Babylon.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:16:
- Kupsabiny: “but this is the message that God is telling you about the king who is sitting on the chair of rulership of David and all the people who live in this city together with all the other people who did not go with you to the country you are in.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But this is what I am saying concerning the king who came from a descendant of David and to all your fellowmen who were-left in the city of Jerusalem, who were- not -taken-captive with you:” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules here in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are still living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:17:
- Kupsabiny: “The God of power is saying, ‘I am sending war to those people, famine and very bad sicknesses. I am making those people to be like those rotten figs, that cannot be eaten.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-send them war, famine and diseases. They will-become like a rotten fig that can- not -be-eaten.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The Commander of the armies of angels says this: ‘I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:18:
- Kupsabiny: “I shall send those people war, famine and sicknesses. It will make them dumbfounded and they will fear when they see what has happened with these people. They will be mocked and cursed through what has happened.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Yes, I will-pursue them with war, famine and disease, and all the kingdoms will-detest them. I will-drive- them -away to wherever nation, and there they will-be-cursed, scorned, mocked, and reproached.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I force them to be taken/exile them, I will cause them to be people whom others curse and be horrified about and make fun of.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:19:
- Kupsabiny: “Those things will come to those people because they refused to listen to what I always told them through my servants the prophets. You who are in exile also refused to listen.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For they did not listen to my words which I was- always -speaking to them through my servants who were prophets. And even you (plur.) who were taken-captive did not also listen. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “That will happen because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you who have been exiled to Babylon have not paid attention to them, either.’ That is what Yahweh says.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:20:
- Kupsabiny: “Therefore, all you in exile listen to what I God am saying, you whom I caused to leave Jerusalem and I drove you to go to Babylon.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore listen to what the LORD is saying, you (plur.) whom he caused-to-be-taken-captive from Jerusalem to-Babilonia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Therefore, you people who have been exiled/forced to go from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:21:
- Kupsabiny: “There is something here that the God of power of Israel is saying about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah who are speaking to you words of lies in his name. He is saying, ‘I will send these people into the hands/power of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, so he can kill (them) while you see it with your eyes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, is saying concerning Ahab the child of Kolaya and Zedekia the child of Maasea, ‘These people are telling you lies in my name. Therefore I will-hand- them -over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babilonia and he will-have- them -killed before your very eyes.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom we Israelis worship, says about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages from him: ‘They will be seized and taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 29:22:
- Kupsabiny: “If a person who was taken from Judah to go to Babylon wants to curse another person to meet with painful words/events, let him say, ‘May God do to you the events that Zedekiah and Ahab met with, those that the king of Babylon burned alive.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Their fate will-be-used by the ones who are from-Juda who were taken-captive to Babilonia to curse others. They will-say, ‘May the LORD kill you like Zedekia and Ahab who were burned by the king of Babilonia.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Because of what will happen to them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be killed by being burned in a fire.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)