Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 44:25:

• Kupsabiny: “The God of power of Israel is saying: You and your wives have done what you said, ‘We are certainly doing our acts/matters that we swore that we would burn those things that smell sweet to the woman ruler of up/heaven that we are praying to and we would pour out the sacrifices of wine.’ Yes, you just continue (plur.) with those things!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel is-saying: ‘You (plur.) and your wives truly obeyed what you have-promised to burn incense and offer drink offering to the Queen of Heaven. Okay, continue to do what you are-doing. Truly obey what you have-promised.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom we Israelis worship, says to you Israeli men: ‘You and your wives have said that you would continue to do what you promised, to burn incense and pour out wine to the goddess whom you call the Queen of Heaven. And you have proved by your actions that you intend to continue to do that. So go ahead and continue doing what you have promised to do for her.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 44:26:

• Kupsabiny: “But listen all you people of Judah who live in the land of Egypt. God is saying: I swear by my own name of power that there is no person of Judah who is in the whole land of Egypt who will be using my name to swear saying, ‘I swear by God!’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But listen to what I am-saying, you (plur.) people of Juda who live in Egipto. I swear to myself that no one among you (plur.) can-use my powerful name. No one can swear like this: ‘I swear in the name of the living Lord GOD.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But now, all you people from Judah who are now living here in Egypt, listen to this message from Yahweh. He says, ‘I have solemnly declared, using my great name, that soon none of you people from Judah who are here in Egypt will ever again use my name. There will be none of you who, when you solemnly promise to do something, will ever again say, ‘I will do it as surely as Yahweh lives.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 44:27:

• Kupsabiny: “I am preparing for you evil and certainly not goodness. I will destroy all you people of Judah in battle or famine so that not even one person shall remain.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “For instead that I will-watch you (plur.) for your good, I will-harm you. You (plur.) will-die here in Egipto by battle or famine until no one will-be-left among you.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Because I will be watching over you, not to cause good things to happen to you but to cause things to happen that will harm you. Almost everyone from Judah who is now here in Egypt will experience being killed by their enemies’ swords, or dying from famine.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 44:28:

• Kupsabiny: “If possible, there are only a few people who will escape the war who will leave Egypt and return to Judah. That remnant of Judah will know at that time that it is the words of whom that will stick, theirs or mine?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If ever there will-be-left (any) from battle and can-return to Juda, just very few. Then the left-behind people of Juda who now live here in Egipto will-know whose word has-been-fulfilled — mine or theirs.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Only a very few of you will not die, and will return to Judah. When that happens, all those who came to Egypt will find out whose words were true/were fulfilled, theirs or mine.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 44:29:

• Kupsabiny: “I God am saying that the thing/sign by which they shall know that it will happen that I punish you and destroy you in this way is this:” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “This is the sign that I will- surely -punish you (plur.) in this place, so that you (plur.) will-know that the destruction which I said against you will- surely -be-fulfilled:” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “And Yahweh also says, ‘I will do something that will prove to you that everything that I have said will happen, and that I will punish you here in this place.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 44:30:

• Kupsabiny: “I will hand over the Pharao who is called Hophra, the one being king of Egypt, to the hands of his enemies like I handed over Zedekiah that king of Judah into the hands of his enemy Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who were seeking to kill him.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will-hand-over Faraon Hofra the king of Egipto to his enemies who want to kill him, just as I handed-over King Zedekia of Juda to his enemy who (was) King Nebuchadnezzar of Babilonia who also wanted to kill him.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I will cause Hophra, the king of Egypt, to be captured by his enemies who want to kill him, just like I caused King Zedekiah of Judah to be captured by the soldiers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.’ ’ And that is what happened several years later.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 45:1:

• Kupsabiny: “And it was the fourth year when Jehoiakim son of Josiah had ruled the land of Judah, when Baruch son of Neriah had written when I had told him, that I said to Baruch,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “On the fourth year of Jehoyakim’s child of Josias reign in Juda, Baruch wrote down what Jeremias dictated him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “After Jehoiakim the son of King Josiah had been ruling Judah for almost four years, I, Baruch, wrote down all the messages that the prophet Jeremiah had dictated to me. Then Jeremiah gave me a message. He said,” (Source: Translation for Translators)