Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 5:18:

• Kupsabiny: “You see, your majesty, the God of authority raised your grandfather Nebuchadnezzar to a great position and to be honored.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “O Great King, God Most High had given predecessor King Nebuchadnezzar [his] great reign, greatness, fame and glory.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘Beloved King, the Most High God made your (sing.) father Nebuchadnezzar king. He became powerful and honored by men.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Your Majesty/O king, the Supreme God caused the man who was king before you, Nebuchadnezzar, to become a great ruler, who was greatly praised and honored.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 5:19:

• Kupsabiny: “He was so great that all communities and nations respected and feared him even to the level of trembling. Whenever he wished to kill someone, he would do it. When he wished to spare, he spared. He would promote or demote whoever he wished.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “And since God had made him great, the peoples and nations and speakers of various languages, seeing him, trembled and were afraid. Whoever he wanted to kill, he killed, whoever he wanted to keep alive, he kept alive. To honor any person or to belittle/insult him, was in his hand.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Because of the power given by God to him, people from different nations, race, and language feared him. He could-kill anyone he wanted to kill. And he could also not kill anyone he wanted not to-be-killed. He could promote a person to a high position if he wanted to promote; he could bring-down the position a person if he wanted to bring- (him) -down.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Because God caused him to become very great, people of many people-groups and nations and who spoke many different languages were very much afraid of him. He commanded his soldiers to kill those whom he wanted to be killed, and he spared/allowed to live those whom he wanted to spare. He honored those whom he wanted to honor, and he caused to be disgraced those whom he wanted to be disgraced.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 5:20:

• Kupsabiny: “But when he became arrogant, stubborn and filled with pride, he was stripped of rulership and was shamed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “But since he had become arrogant, stubborn he was removed from his throne and his grandeur was also snatched from him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But because he became-proud and arrogant, he was-brought-down/deposed from his kingship” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But when he became very proud and stubborn , he was removed from being king. People did not consider him to be glorious/great any more.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 5:21:

• Kupsabiny: “He was driven off from where people are and given the mind of animals. He lived with donkeys of the bush grazing like a cow. The dew fell on his body until he realized that the God of authority rule over all nations on earth and gives anyone he desires in his stomach/heart to rule them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “He was sent away from among men, and his mind was made like the mind of an animal. Until he managed to recognize that the Most High God reigns over countries and makes those who please him to be rulers of countries, he lived with wild donkeys and ate grass like cows and oxen. His body was drenched with the dew of the heavens.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “and driven-away from the people. His mind became like that of an animal. He lived among/with the wild donkeys and grazed grass like a cattle/cow. And his body was- always -drenched with dew. That was his situation until he acknowledged that the Most High God has the power over the kingdoms of men and he can-give- them -over to anyone he wants.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “His officials sent him away in order that he would not be near other people. God caused him to have a mind like animals have. He lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like cows do, and dew from the sky caused his body to be damp/wet each morning. He was like that until he learned that the Supreme God is really the one who rules the kingdoms of this world, and that he appoints whomever he chooses to rule those kingdoms.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 5:22:

• Kupsabiny: “Though you his grandson knew those words/things, you did not accept/agree to humble yourself.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “O Belshazzar, you are the king’s replacement. Even though you know all these things, your heart has not become humble.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘And you (sing.), King Belshazzar his son, even though you (sing.) knew all this, you (sing.) still did- not -humble yourself,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Now, Belshazzar, you have become the king. You also knew all those things, but you have not made yourself humble.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 5:23:

• Kupsabiny: “You abused/shamed the God of heaven by bringing utensils from the House of God and using them for drinking wine with your nobles/leaders, wives and concubines. Again, you worshiped idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone. Those are things without eyes, without ears for hearing and they do not know anything. But you did not honor God who rules over your life and knows everything you do.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Instead of that you have done work in opposition to the Lord of heaven. The cups brought from his temple have been brought here. And you and the officials, your wives and concubines have drunk wine from those articles. And gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone you have praised. Those gods are neither able to hear, nor to see, nor to know anything at all. Even though your lives [lit.: breath] and your ways are in God’s hand, you have not honored him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “instead you (sing.) considered yourself greater-than the Lord of heaven. You (sing.) had- the drinking-cups from the temple of God -taken and you (sing.) and your (sing.) noble guests, wives and other slave wives drank from it. Aside from that, you (sing.) worshipped the gods made of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone — gods that can- not -see, hear, and understand. But you (sing.) did- not -praise the God who holds your (sing.) life and controls/wills everything that you (sing.) do.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You have considered yourself to be greater than God, the Lord of heaven. So you have commanded your servants to bring to you these sacred cups, which were dedicated to the Supreme God, and which were taken from his temple in Jerusalem. You and your officials and your wives and your concubines/slave wives have been drinking wine from these cups, while you have been praising your own gods—gods which are made of gold and silver and bronze and iron and wood and stone. Those are gods that cannot see, that cannot hear, and that do not know anything! You have not honored the God who gives you breath and who controls everything that happens to you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 5:24:

• Kupsabiny: “That is what has made God to send that hand to write these words.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “So he has sent a hand to write these words.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So he sent that hand in-order to-write these words:
  ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So God sent that hand to write a message for you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 5:25:

• Kupsabiny: “Those writings say: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The words that have been written are —
  MENE MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So he sent that hand in-order to-write these words:
  ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “This is the message that it wrote: ‘sc +w Mene is what those words mean:
  sc Menesc* means ‘numbered/counted’. That means that God has been counting the days that you will rule, and he has now decided that you will not rule any more.” (Source: Translation for Translators)