Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:8:

• Kupsabiny: “But now they are much scorched
  their appearance/faces are not seen on the road
  Their bodies are pale/weak until the skin lies tight over the bones
  until they are (dry/thin) like firewood.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Now their faces are blacker than soot.
  And no one is able to recognize them in the streets.
  The skin clings to their bones,
  having dried out, hard as wood.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But now they are blacker than charcoal, and they no-longer be-recognized. As-if- they are -like bones covered with skin, and as-if-like dried wood.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But now their faces are blacker than soot,
  and no one recognizes them in the streets.
  Their skin has shriveled on their bones,
  and it has become as dry as a wooden stick.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:9:

• Kupsabiny: “A person who is killed by a sword is better off
  than the one whom famine has killed,
  they are suffering slowly until they are finished
  because food is missing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Those who died by the sword were more
  fortunate than those who died of famine.
  Because fields were not producing
  they waisted away due to hunger.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Those who have died in battle were far-better-off than those who have died of hunger. They gradually died of hunger because there was no food at-all.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “It is better to die in a battle
  than to die of hunger.
  There was no food to harvest in the fields,
  so the people slowly starved until they died.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:10:

• Kupsabiny: “A great disaster has struck
  so that compassionate women cook
  their own children and eat (them)
  for those children to become their food.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Soft-hearted women cooked
  their own children with their own hands.
  In the time of the devastation of my people
  their children became their food.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “When destruction came to my fellowmen, even the compassionate/caring mothers cooked their own children in-order to-be-eaten because of severe hunger.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Women who usually/previously were very kind
  have killed and cooked their own children;
  they ate them when there was no other food,
  when Jerusalem was surrounded by enemy soldiers.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:11:

• Kupsabiny: “God has poured out his anger on us
  and he has finished his punishment on us,
  setting fire to Jerusalem
  burning it completely!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “But now the burning anger of the LORD has been satisfied.
  He has poured out his anger.
  In Zion he started a fire
  so that all her foundation were destroyed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The LORD caused- Zion -to-experience his full anger. Therefore he burned this up to its foundation.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Yahweh has shown that he was extremely angry;
  it is as though he started/ignited a fire in Jerusalem
  that burned everything to ashes.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:12:

• Kupsabiny: “There is no king
  or any community that could accept/agree
  that any enemy
  could enter into the city of Jerusalem.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “No one in the whole world, no king
  would ever have thought that an enemy
  would be able to enter the main gates of Jerusalem.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The kings in the whole world and their people could not believe that the enemies could enter the gates of Jerusalem.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “None of the kings on the earth or anyone else
  believed that any of our enemies could enter the gates of Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:13:

• Kupsabiny: “But it was the sin of the prophets that caused it,
  the rebellion of the priests brought about (this misfortune)
  those who shed the blood of people
  who were righteous by killing (them) inside the city.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “However this happened because of the sins
  of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests.
  They have shed the blood of righteous
  people within the city.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But this happened because of the sin its prophets and priests, who killed innocent people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But that is what happened;
  it happened because the prophets sinned;
  and the priests also sinned
  by causing innocent people to be executed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:14:

• Kupsabiny: “Leaders are now staggering/groping around on the roads
  like blind people,
  who have killed (people) until no person wanted to
  go near and touch them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Now they wander in the streets groping like blind men.
  They have become unclean because of the shed blood.
  No one even dares to touch their clothing.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “And now they are groping in the streets like blind. Their clothes were stained with blood, therefore no one dare to touch them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The prophets and priests wandered through the streets
  as though they were blind.
  No one would touch them
  because their clothes were stained with the blood of people who had been killed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:15:

• Kupsabiny: “People scolded (them) saying,
  ‘Move far away you sinners.
  You go away so you do not touch us!’
  As they are fleeing and wandering around,
  the people of another district/country say to them,
  ‘Never shall these people live in our country!’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “People are shouting, "Go away, O unclean people,
  go far away, don’t touch us."
  When they became fugitives and wanderers;
  people said among the nations,
  ‘They can stay here with us no longer."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The people shout at them, ‘Go away! You are dirty! You do not touch us.’ Therefore they fled and wherever nation they went; but no one at-all accepted them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The people who were alive shouted, ‘Stay away from us ! You are defiled/untouchable!
  Do not touch us!’
  So the prophets and priests fled from Israel,
  and they wandered around from one country to another,
  because people in each country kept saying to them, ‘You cannot stay here!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)