Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 5:18:
- Kupsabiny: “because the mountain of Zion has become desolate/deserted/ruined,
so that jackals are now growling there.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Because Mount Zion lies desolate,
and jackals roam there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For Mount Zion is now desolate/lonely/deserted, and this has been now being-roamed-around by wild dogs.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Jerusalem is completely deserted,
and jackals/wolves prowl around it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 5:19:
- Kupsabiny: “But, oh God, you always rule.
Your rulership goes on for generations.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O LORD, you rule forever,
your throne endures from generation to generation.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “O LORD, you reign without end. Your reigning continues forever/[lit until whenever].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But Yahweh, you rule forever!
You continue to rule from one generation to the next generation.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 5:20:
- Kupsabiny: “But why have you turned you back on us like this?
Why have you abandoned us for so long?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Why do you continue to forget us?
Why have you abandoned us for such a long time?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Why you always forget us? Why did you reject us for so long?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So why have you forgotten us?
Why have you abandoned us for a very long time?” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 5:21:
- Kupsabiny: “Draw us back, oh God, to come to where you are,
so we can come and stay as in former times.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O LORD, bring us back to you, so that we may return.
Restore us to what we were before.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “O LORD, cause- us -to-return to you and we will-return. Restore to us our good situation before.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Please enable us to return to you,
and enable us to prosper as we did previously.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 5:22:
- Kupsabiny: “Our God, have you refused us for good?
Have you lost all hope?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Have you abandoned us altogether?
Are you exceedingly angry with us?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Is your anger too much that you completely rejected us?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Please do that, because we hope that you have not rejected us forever
and that you do not continue to be extremely angry with us!” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:1:
- Kupsabiny: “There was a day when up there in heaven opened up and I got revelations from God. I was then thirty years old and it was the fifth day of the fourth month when I Ezekiel with other people were at the river of Kebar in the land we had been driven to.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I am Ezekiel the priest the child of Buzi, and I was one of those who-were-taken-captive to Babilonia. One day, when I was-living beside the River Kebar together-with the others captives, the heaven opened-up and I was-empowered by the LORD, and then he showed me visions. This happened on the fifth day of the fourth month on the 30th year. This was the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoyakin.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I am Ezekiel, a priest, the son of Buzi. When I was 30 years old, I wasliving among theIsraeli people who had been exiled from/forced to leave Judahand had come to Babylon. I was living along the Kebar River/Canalsouth of Babylon. Almost five years after King Jehoiachin had been exiled/forced to leave Judah, on the fifth day of the fourth monthof that year, it was as though the sky was opened and I saw visions from God.
On that day,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:2:
- Kupsabiny: “And on that fifth day of that month in the fifth year after king Jehoiachin had been taken to another country to become a prisoner,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I am Ezekiel the priest the child of Buzi, and I was one of those who-were-taken-captive to Babilonia. One day, when I was-living beside the River Kebar together-with the others captives, the heaven opened-up and I was-empowered by the LORD, and then he showed me visions. This happened on the fifth day of the fourth month on the 30th year. This was the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoyakin.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I am Ezekiel, a priest, the son of Buzi. When I was 30 years old, I wasliving among theIsraeli people who had been exiled from/forced to leave Judahand had come to Babylon. I was living along the Kebar River/Canalsouth of Babylon. Almost five years after King Jehoiachin had been exiled/forced to leave Judah, on the fifth day of the fourth monthof that year, it was as though the sky was opened and I saw visions from God.
On that day,” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:3:
- Kupsabiny: “a vision/revelation came to me, Ezekiel son of Buzi who (is/was) a priest. I was at the bank of the river Kebar in the land of Babylonia, when the power of God came over me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I am Ezekiel the priest the child of Buzi, and I was one of those who-were-taken-captive to Babilonia. One day, when I was-living beside the River Kebar together-with the others captives, the heaven opened-up and I was-empowered by the LORD, and then he showed me visions. This happened on the fifth day of the fourth month on the 30th year. This was the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoyakin.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “God gave me messagesin visions here in Babylonia, and I felt the power of Yahweh on me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
