Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:31:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying, ‘A day is coming when I will make a new covenant with the people of the land of Israel and of Judah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD still/also continued to say, ‘The time will-come that/when I will-make a new covenant with the people of Israel and of Juda,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I, Yahweh, say this: ‘There will be a time when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and Judah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:32:
- Kupsabiny: “This covenant will not be like the one I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand/led them to come out from the land of Egypt. They broke my former/first covenant even though I loved them like a man loves his wife.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “and this is not the same with the covenant before which I made with their ancestors when I led them out of Egipto. Even though I am like a husband to them, they never/[did-not emphasis] followed my first covenant. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “This new agreement will not be like the agreement that I made with their ancestors when I took them by their hands and led them out of Egypt. They broke that agreement, even though I loved them like husbands love their wives.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:33:
- Kupsabiny: “The covenant that I shall make with the people of Israel in the coming days is this: I shall give my wishes/demands in their heads and write (them) in their souls/lives. I shall be their God and they shall be my people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD still/also said, ‘The new covenant that I will-make with the people of Israel in the future days is this: I will-put my commands in their minds, and I will-write- them -down on their hearts. I will-become their God, and they will-become my people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “This is what I, Yahweh, say: ‘This is the new agreement that I will make with the people of Israel some day: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their inner beings. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:34:
- Kupsabiny: “There is no one among them who shall still teach his neighbor or his fellow person saying, ‘Know God,’ because all the people shall know me from the small to the big ones. I shall forgive them for their sins and throw away their evils deeds.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “No one will-say to his fellowmen or to his brother-or-sister that he/she should acknowledge the LORD. Because all of them will acknowledge me, from the least to the greatest. For I will-forgive them of the evil that (they) did, and I will- no-longer -remember their sins.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And it will not be necessary for them to teach their neighbors or their relatives and say, ‘You need to know Yahweh,’ because everyone, including unimportant people and very important people, will already know me. And I will forgive them for having been very wicked, and I will never think again about the sins that they have committed.’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:35:
- Kupsabiny: “God set the sun to shine in the day and the moon and stars to shine in the night. He made a storm appear from the ocean and he is the one with power. God is saying,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD still/also said, ‘I am the one who commands to the sun to light/shine at day-time, and to the moon and stars to light/shine at night-time. And I am the one who stirs up the sea and causes the waves to roar. Almighty LORD is my name.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh is the one who causes the sun to give light during the day,
and who causes the moon and the stars to give light during the night.
He stirs up the seas, with the result that waves roar.
His name is the Commander of the armies of angels,
and this is what he says:” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:36:
- Kupsabiny: “‘As long as things still stand like this will the community of Israel stand before me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “As the heaven and the earth remains, Israel will- also -remain a nation without end.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘I will not reject my Israeli people
any more than I will get rid of the laws that control the universe.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:37:
- Kupsabiny: “If it was possible for the world above to be measured, and it be known/understood how the world below supports (it), then that is the time when I shall turn my back to the people of Israel on account of all those words/deeds they have done. It is I God who has spoken.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Just as heaven cannot be measured and the foundation of the earth cannot be fathomed, I cannot reject all the descendants of Israel because of the sins they have-done. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And this is what I say:
‘No one can measure the sky,
and no one can find out what is supporting the earth.
Similarly, I cannot reject forever the descendants of Jacob
because of all the evil things that they have done.’
That is certain, because I, Yahweh, have said it!” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 31:38:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying, ‘Days are coming when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt and renewed and called/named after me. (They) shall start from Hananel where one can see far to the Gate of the Corner.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD continued to say, ‘The time will-come that the city of Jerusalem will-be built up again from the Tower of Hananel towards the Corner Gate.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I, Yahweh, also say that there will be a time when everything in Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me, from the tower of Hananel at the northeast corner, west to the gate named the Corner Gate.” (Source: Translation for Translators)