Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:39:

• Kupsabiny: “Are they greedy?
  I shall prepare for them something to eat.
  I shall make them drunk
  so that they are about to faint.
  And when they want to sleep,
  (they) shall sleep forever without getting up.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “And since they are hungry, I will-cause/allow- them -to-have-a-feast. I will-make- them -drunk, make-happy and make- (them) -sleep that cannot wake up anymore.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But while they are extremely hungry,
  I will prepare a different kind of feast for them.
  It is as though I will cause them to drink wine until they are very drunk,
  with the result that they will fall asleep.
  But they will never wake up from that sleep!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:40:

• Kupsabiny: “I shall drive those people downhill to be slaughtered like sheep,
  or like rams and he-goats.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will bring them in-order to slaughter like sheep and goats.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I will bring them down to a place where they will be slaughtered,
  like someone who takes lambs or rams or goats to where they will be slaughtered for sacrifices.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:41:

• Kupsabiny: “(People) boasted greatly of Babylon all the time!
  But it is surely a surprise when it will be captured!
  Yes, it will be so terrible
  in the eyes of other nations!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “How Babilonia was fallen, the nation being-praised by the whole world! What had-happened to her was-terrifying to look at!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “People all over the earth now honor/praise Babylon;
  they say that it is a great city.
  But I will cause it to become a place about which people of all nations are horrified.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:42:

• Kupsabiny: “Enemies will swarm to Babylon
  like an ocean that is roaring.
  (They) will destroy the Babylonians
  like when the ocean envelopes/covers the land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Babilonia will-be-covered by the roaring waves.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The enemies of Babylon will cover the city like huge waves of the sea.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:43:

• Kupsabiny: “Its villages are in terror
  and (they) become a desert/wilderness where everything has been taken away,
  a land that is completely desolate
  where no one will pass through.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Her towns will-become desolate, like a desert that no one lives or even passes-by.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The towns in Babylonia will become ruins,
  Babylonia will become a dry desert area.
  It will be a land in which no one lives
  and which no one walks through.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:44:

• Kupsabiny: “I will punish Bel whom the people of Babylon worship
  and make him return what he has eaten.
  Never shall other nations be coming and going to it
  and the wall of Babylon will fall down.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will-punish Bel the god of Babilonia. I will-have- him -vomit what he had-devoured. Nations will no longer come to worship him. And the walls of the Babilonia will-fall-down.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “And I will punish Bel, the god that the people of Babylon worship,
  and I will cause the people to give back what they have stolen.
  People of other nations will no longer come to worship Bel.
  And the walls of Babylon will collapse.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)