Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:27:
- Kupsabiny: “You (sing.) Moab should think/remember how you insulted/mocked Israel.
You took/considered them like thieves that are caught
(you are) shaking your head scorning (them)
when you speak of that land of Israel.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You residents of Moab, is (it) not so (that) you (plur.) mocked Israel? Why, was- she -caught in stealing? So, why are- you (plur.) really -shaking-your-head in mocking her?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You people of Moab ridiculed the people of Israel.
You treated them as though they were thieves.
You shook your head at them scornfully and despised them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:28:
- Kupsabiny: “Listen, people of Moab, abandon your cities
and go and stay in caves,
like a dove that builds its house
there in a cleft of a cave.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] leave now from your towns and stay in the rocky-place, like doves that nest in the cliffts.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You people who live in Moab,
you should abandon your towns and go and live in caves.
Be like doves that make their nests in the entrances of caves.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:29:
- Kupsabiny: “It is heard that Moab is proud
and (it) has a big pride
and has shown much boasting (attitude),
superiority and arrogance.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are very proud. I have-heard how proud you are, and arrogance.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “We have all heard that the people of Moab are very proud;
they are extremely proud and conceited/arrogant.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:30:
- Kupsabiny: “I God know their rebellion
but that boasting of theirs is empty/futile.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I, the LORD, knows how boastful you are, but it is worthless.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But Yahweh says, ‘I know about that,
but it is useless for them to boast
because it will accomplish nothing.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:31:
- Kupsabiny: “So I mourn for Moab
I cry for all the people of Moab
and I mourn over the people of Kir-hareseth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore I will weep for Moab and to those-who-come-from Kir Hareseth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So now I will wail for Moab;
I will cry about all its people.
I will moan for the men of Kir-Hareseth city, the old capital of Moab.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:32:
- Kupsabiny: “I feel sorry for the people of Sibmah more than those of Jazer did,
oh, you city of Sibmah.
Before you were a vine
whose branches reached to the Lake of Salt
and spread up to Jazer.
The fruits of the fig tree are destroyed
and also the fruits of every other tree.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will- also -weep for the people of Sibma, more that I wept for those from-Jazer. Sibma, you are like a grape plant that your branches have-reached over the Dead Sea until Jazer. But now the destroyer has- completely/totally -taken your fruits.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “You people of Sibmah city, you have many vineyards.
It is as though the branches of your vines extend across the Dead Sea to Jazer city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:33:
- Kupsabiny: “The people in the land of Moab are no longer happy
there is no joy in the gardens and fields.
Wine no longer flows at where it is pressed,
and no one is shouting there any more
rejoicing as they press the wine.
Even though people still shout,
that shouting is no longer from happiness.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “There are no more rejoicing and marrying that can be heard in the farms and vineyards in the land of Moab. Wine is- no-longer -flow in place-for-pressing. No one tramples/treads the grapes with shouts of joy. There is-shouting indeed but not shouting for joy.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But no one will be joyful or happy in Moab now;
your fruit and grapes that ripen in the summer/hot season will soon be destroyed.
There will be no grape juice coming from the winepresses,
so there will be no wine.
People will not shout joyfully
as they tread on the grapes;
people will shout,
but they will not be shouting joyfully.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:34:
- Kupsabiny: “Their cries are heard
over in Heshbon, Elealeh until Jahaz
(They) are heard in Zoar up to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah
and the valley of Nimrim is dry.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The crying of (those) from-Heshbon can-be-heard till Eleale and in Jahaz. The crying of (those) from-Zoar can-be-heard till Horonaim and in Eglat Shelishiya. For even the stream of Nimrim has-dried-up already.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Instead, the sound of their wailing will rise from Heshbon city to Elealeh town and Jahaz village,
from Zoar city as far as Horonaim town and Eglath-Shelishiyah village.
Even the water in Nimrim Stream will be dried up.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
