Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:23:
- Kupsabiny: “I used you to destroy shepherds and their sheep.
I smashed farmers and their oxen,
and I finished kings and leaders.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will- still -destroy through you the animals and its shepherds, the farmers and the cows, and the leaders and the officials.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:24:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying, ‘You will see with your own eyes how I will punish the land of Babylon and its people, based on every sin that they have done in the city of Zion.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘My people, I will-show to you (plur.) my revenge to Babilonia and to her people for all the bad-things they have-done in Jerusalem. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But, Yahweh also says,
‘Soon I will repay/punish you people in Babylon and in the rest of Babylonia
for all the evil things that you have done in Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:25:
- Kupsabiny: “I hate you, oh Babylon,
you who destroyed a whole world.
I will do fierce/terrible things to you.
I will catch you and push you into/over a cliff
and I will leave you/let you be until when you have become ashes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘I am against you, O Babilonia, you being-called Mount of Destroyer! You destroy the whole world. I will-use my power to level you and I will-burn you.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Babylonia is like a great mountain
from which bandits descend to plunder/steal things from people all over the earth.
But I, Yahweh, am the enemy of you people of Babylonia.
I will raise my fist to strike you.
I will knock you down from the cliffs
and cause you to be only a huge pile of burned rubble.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:26:
- Kupsabiny: “Never shall a center post appear from you
nor one that is dug out for making the foundation of a house
because you have become a deserted place forever.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “No stone ever will-be-taken from you to be used to build a building. You will-become desolate without end. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Your city will be abandoned forever;
even the stones in your city will never again be used for buildings.
Your city will be completely destroyed.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:27:
- Kupsabiny: “Raise up the banner that opens the fighting. Blow the horns so that other nations can hear. Prepare the communities to go and fight against Babylon and let horses come to aid in large numbers! Choose a man who can lead/go in front in this war. And the kings who should first come to aid are those from Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Lift up a banner as a sign to attack! Sound the trumpet among the nations! Get- them -ready to attack Babilonia. Let the soldiers of Ararat, Mini and Ashkenaz attack. Choose a leader to attack Babilonia. Send horses as many as locusts.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Tell the nations to lift up a battle flag!
Tell them to shout the battle-cry!
Gather all their armies to fight against Babylon!
Prepare the nations to attack Babylon.
Summon the armies of the kingdoms north of Babylonia—from Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a commander for them,
and bring a great number of horses;
there must be a huge number of horses; that huge number will resemble a swarm of locusts.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:28:
- Kupsabiny: “Prepare the communities to go and fight against Babylon. Let the kings of Media, their leaders and big people together with all the soldiers in the countries that they rule come.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Let the kings of Medes get-ready, with their the ones-who-rule and officials, and all their subject nations to attack Babilonia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Prepare the armies of other nations,
armies that will be led by the kings of Media and Persia,
their governors and their officials.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:29:
- Kupsabiny: “The land/earth trembles and there is anxiety because of the words that God said would come to pass that Babylon will be a desert where no person shall ever again go to live.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Babilonia will-be-like a person who shake/tremble and writhe/groan in pain because the LORD will-do what he has-planned against it/her, that no one will-live in this place and will- now -become desolate/lonely.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When they attack Babylon, it will be as though the earth will shake and writhe in pain,
because those armies will accomplish everything that Yahweh has planned to do to Babylon;
they will destroy it completely,
with the result that no one will live there again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:30:
- Kupsabiny: “The soldiers of Babylon are afraid and they are staying in the guarded place in the city. They have no courage at all left. Look, they have simply become women! The gates of the city are being torn down and houses have been set on fire.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The soldiers of Babilonia will-stop to fight and they will- just -remain in their forts/barracks. Their strength will-be-lost and as-if they are just women who are weak. The houses in Babilonia will-be- -burned and the bars of her gates will-be-ruined.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When their enemies attack, the strongest warriors in Babylon will not fight.
They will remain in their barracks, without any strength.
They will be as timid/weak as women.
The enemy soldiers will burn the buildings in the city
and pull down the bars of the city gates.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
