Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Jeremiah 30:23)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 30:23:

  • Kupsabiny: “Hear please how the whirlwind of God is coming,
    it comes with his fierceness of anger.
    A wind blows that is swirling upwards,
    and crashes on the heads of sinners.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Listen! My anger is like a storm or whirlwind that will-hit the head of the wicked people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Yahweh will punish your enemies;
    it will be like a great storm;
    it will come down like a whirlwind, swirling around the heads of wicked people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 30:24)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 30:24:

  • Kupsabiny: “The anger of God will not subside
    until when everything his head wants
    has come to pass.
    You (plur.) his people will understand/know his words well
    in those days that are coming.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “My anger will- never -vanish until I have done what I want to do. And some-time-later, you will-understand this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “He will not stop being angry
    until he completely accomplishes all that he has planned.
    In the future, you will understand all of this clearly.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 31:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:1:

  • Kupsabiny: “God is saying: The day shall arrive when I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall also be my people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD continued to say, ‘At that time, I will-become God of all the families of Israel, and they will-become my people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Yahweh says that at that time, he will be the God who is worshiped by all the clans in Israel, and they will be his people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 31:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “I God am saying: I will show mercy to the people in the wilderness who escaped death, and I will give the people of Israel rest.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I, the LORD, am-saying that I will-take-good-care the-ones who were left alive while they were-journeying in the desert. I will-return to give rest to Israel.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “This is what Yahweh says:
    ‘Those people who remained alive and were not killed by their enemies’ swords
    were blessed by me even in the desert;
    I enabled them to have peace.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 31:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “I came to them long ago and said: I love you always, and I have shown you that love with one stomach.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “In the time-past, the LORD appeared to the Israelinhon and said, ‘I really love you with an everlasting love. In my kindness, I had you came-near to me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Long ago I, Yahweh, said to your ancestors, the Israeli people,
    ‘I have loved you and I will continue to love you forever.
    By faithfully loving you, I have brought you close to myself.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 31:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will restore you again, be strong oh my beloved (plur.) of Israel. You shall again take your lyres and meet with those happy ones and sing with joy.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-build- you -up/[lit. cause-to-stand] again, O people of Israel who are like a virgin woman. Again you will-dance in gladness playing your tambourines.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “And now I tell you, my Israeli people whom I love , that I will cause you to be a nation again.
    You will joyfully dance as you play your tambourines.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 31:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “You shall again plant vines on the hills of Samaria. Farmers shall plant those trees and they will eat those grapes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You will- again -plant grapes in the hills of Samaria, and will-benefit its fruits.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Again you will plant your vineyards on the hills of Samaria,
    and you will eat the grapes that grow there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 31:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “Days are coming when guards/watchmen shall cry out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Let us go to Zion where our God is.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Time will-come that the guards there in the hills of Efraim will-shout, ‘[You (plur.)] come, let us go-up to Jerusalem to worship the LORD our God.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “There will be a time when watchmen will call out from the hills of Samaria ,
    ‘Come, let’s go up to Jerusalem
    to worship Yahweh, our God!’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)