Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:63:
- Kupsabiny: “When you have read this book to the end, tie a stone to it, throw it in the river Euphrates so it sinks.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “After you have-read it, tie it with a stone and then throw into the River of Eufrates.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then, when you have finished reading what I have written on the scroll, tie it to a heavy stone and throw it into the Euphrates River.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 51:64:
- Kupsabiny: “Say, ‘This is how the city of Babylon shall sink so that it does not rise up again on account of the sufferings that God is sending to it.’ ’
The words of Jeremiah end here.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then you will-say, ‘That is what will-happen to Babilonia — it will-sink and never to emerge because of the destruction that the LORD will-pour-out upon her. Her people will- surely -die.’ ’
Here it ended the message of Jeremias.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then say, ‘In the same way, Babylon and its people will disappear and never exist again, because of the disasters that Yahweh will cause to occur there’ ’
That is the end of Jeremiah’s messages.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 52:2:
- Kupsabiny: “Zedekiah did bad matters in the eyes of God following like his father Jehoiakim had done.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “What he did was bad in the sight of the LORD, just as King Jehoyakim had-done.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Zedekiah did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his father Jehoiakim had done.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 52:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Therefore, God became very angry with the people of Jerusalem and of Judah until he turned his back on all those people.
Later, Zedekiah refused the rulership of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then some-time-later the LORD drove from his presence the ones from-Jerusalem and from-Juda. This was happened because of the anger of the LORD to them.
Now, Zedekia rebelled against the king of Babilonia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The events that are summarized here happened because Yahweh was angry with the people of Jerusalem and of other places in Judah, and finally he exiled them/forced them to go to other countries and said that he did not want to have anything to do with them any more.
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 52:4:
- Kupsabiny: “So, Nebuchadnezzar went to raid/fight Zedekiah. His soldiers arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of the rulership of Zedekiah and surrounded Jerusalem. Those people heaped up things like hills to surround the wall of that city so that they could climb on them to get inside and fight the battle.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore on the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babilonia and his entire soldiers attacked Jerusalem. They camped outside the city and piled-up the ground/earth at the side of the wall so that there they will-pass-by to enter the town.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So, on January 15, when Zedekiah had been ruling for almost nine years, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his entire army to attack Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built dirt ramps up to the top of the city walls to enable them to attack the city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 52:5:
- Kupsabiny: “The city was surrounded like that until the eleventh year of the rulership of Zedekiah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They besieged the city until the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekia.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “They continued to surround Jerusalem until Zedekiah had been ruling for almost eleven years.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 52:6:
- Kupsabiny: “And/But on the ninth day of the fourth month in that year the famine had become very severe inside the city so that there was no food at all for the people of the city to eat.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “On the ninth day of the fourth month of that year, the famine in the city was so severe and the people has no more food.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When Zedekiah had been ruling for almost eleven years, by July 18 of that year, the famine/lack of food in the city had become very severe, and there was no more food for the people to eat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 52:7:
- Kupsabiny: “Then (they) broke through the wall. Even though the city had been surrounded, king Zedekiah was able to escape secretly in the night with his soldiers. (They) passed alongside the garden of the king and used a path which was in between two walls and came out heading to the (broad) valley of Jordan.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, those from-Babilonia broke-down a portion of the wall of the city, so Zedekia and all his soldiers planned to escape. But because those-from-Babilonia has-surrounded the city, they waited until night. Then they passed-through the gate, between the two walls near the garden of the king. They fled to the Valley of Jordan,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Then the soldiers of Babylonia broke through a section of the city wall, and all the Israeli soldiers fled. But because the city was surrounded by soldiers from Babylonia, Zedekiah and the Israeli soldiers waited until it became dark. Then they left the city through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden. Then they ran towards the Jordan River Valley.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
