Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 37:8:

• Kupsabiny: “So the people of Babylon will come back and fight against this city and capture (it) and then set fire to it to destroy it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then those whose-from-Babilonia will-return to this city. They will-capture it and then burn.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then the army of Babylonia will return here and capture this city and burn everything in it.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 37:9:

• Kupsabiny: “I God am saying that you (plur.) should not deceive yourselves saying, ‘The soldiers of Babylon have gone.’ I am telling you, they will return!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “This is still what the LORD is saying: Do not deceive yourselves by thinking that those whose-from-Babilonia would no longer return. For they surely would-return.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So, this is what I say to you Israelis: ‘You should not deceive yourselves, thinking that the army from Babylonia has gone and will not return. That is not true.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 37:10:

• Kupsabiny: “Even if you fought the soldiers of Babylon and you speared them until only the wounded were left in the tents, those would get up and set fire to this city and destroy it.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Even if you defeat the entire soldiers of Babilonia who are attacking you (plur.), and the survivors among them were the wounded ones who are in their tents, they still would attack you (plur.) and they will-burn this city.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “And even if your soldiers could destroy almost all of the soldiers from Babylonia who are attacking you, and allow only a few of them who were wounded to remain alive in their tents, they would come out of their tents and burn this city completely!’ ’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 37:11:

• Kupsabiny: “And/but when the soldiers of Babylon had turned back leaving Jerusalem, as they had heard that the soldiers of Egypt were coming,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “When the soldiers of Babilonia fled from Jerusalem because of the soldiers of Pharaoh,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “When the army from Babylonia left Jerusalem because the army from Egypt was approaching,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 37:12:

• Kupsabiny: “I left Jerusalem and went to the land of Benjamin to be given part of my inheritance.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Jeremias left from Jerusalem and went to the land of Benjamin to get his portion of land of his family.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I started to leave the city. I intended to go to the area where the descendants of Benjamin live, in order to take possession of my share of the property from my family.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 37:13:

• Kupsabiny: “But when I had arrived at the Gate of Benjamin, I met a guard who was called Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah. That one said to me, ‘Are you fleeing to join the people of Babylon?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But when he arrived at the Gate of Benjamin, he was arrested by the captain of the guards who was Iria the child of Shelemia and grandchild of Hanania. The guard told him, ‘You are defending those whose-from-Babilonia!’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But as I was walking out the Benjamin Gate, a guard seized me and said, ‘You are deserting us and going to the soldiers from Babylonia!’ The man who seized me was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah and grandson of Hananiah.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 37:14:

• Kupsabiny: “I said to (him), ‘I am not fleeing to join the Babylonians.’ But that guard did not accept my words. So, (he) took me and led me to the leaders.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Jeremias replied, ‘That is not true! I do not defend those whose-from-Babilonia.’ But Iria would never believe, therefore he arrested Jeremias and brought to the officials.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But I protested and said, ‘That is not true! I was not intending to do that!’ But Irijah would not pay attention to what I said. He took me to the king’s officials.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 37:15:

• Kupsabiny: “Those leaders became very angry with me and beat me, and after that they locked me up in the house of the secretary Jonathan which they had turned into becoming a house of prisoners.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They were furious/angry with Jeremias, and they had him beaten and then imprisoned there in the house of Jonatan the secretary. That house they made into a prison-cell.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They were very angry with me. They commanded the guards to beat me and then to put me in the house where Jonathan the king’s secretary stayed. They had changed Jonathan’s house to make it become a prison.” (Source: Translation for Translators)