Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Daniel 9:24)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 9:24:

  • Kupsabiny: “God has set a period of seven multiplied by seventy years concerning your people and this holy city. Then rebellion will be finished, sin will be destroyed and forgiveness will come and then, everlasting righteousness will follow. This will fulfill the vision and what the prophets said. Then the House of God will be renewed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “In order to set your nation and the holy city free from sin and evil, in order to pardon sin, and in order to establish righteousness forever, God has decreed 70 weeks. So the vision and prophecy will be fulfilled, and the holy temple will again be anointed. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘God decreed/declared/destined/willed 490 years for the holy city and your (sing.) fellow-people will-be-stopped their rebelling to God so-that they will-be-redeemed from their sins, so-that God can-establish righteousness forever/[lit. until whenever], so-that the vision and prophecy will-be-fulfilled, and so-that the temple of God will-be-dedicated again.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “God has determined/declared that there will be 490 years until he frees/saves your people from the guilt of their sins and to atone for the evil things that they have done. Then God will rule everyone justly, and he will do that forever. And what you saw in the vision and what Jeremiah prophesied will come true/be fulfilled, and the sacred temple will be dedicated to God again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Daniel 9:25)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 9:25:

  • Kupsabiny: “So you should know that from the moment it is said that Jerusalem city be built again to the time the anointed one comes to rule/reign, seven multiplied by seven and seven multiplied by sixty plus two years. Jerusalem city and roads will be built having defense points/places, but life will be difficult during this time.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Know this and understand [that], from the time the command to rebuild Jerusalem is issued until the anointed one — the ruler — comes, there will be 7 weeks and 62 weeks. Even though it is in a time of trouble, this city will be rebuilt with streets and trenches. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘You (sing.) should learn/know and understand that from the time of the command to build Jerusalem again until the coming of the chosen leader/[lit. head] of God, 49 years will-pass. And for a period/[lit. inside] of 434 years Jerusalem will-be-built again with plaza and defenses. That time will-be-chaotic.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You need to know and understand this: There will be 49 years from the time that the king commands that Jerusalem should be rebuilt until the leader/king that God has chosen will come. Then 434 years later, Jerusalem will be rebuilt, and it will have streets and will have a moat/deep ditch filled with water around it to protect the city. But that will be a time when God’s people will have a lot of troubles/difficulties/suffering.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Daniel 9:26)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 9:26:

  • Kupsabiny: “But after this period of seven multiplied by sixty plus two years, that Anointed one of God will be killed innocently. Another king’s army shall attack the city and the House of God. The final death will come like a flooded river, with war and the destruction that God has prepared.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Then after 62 weeks that man who has been anointed will be killed and he will not have anything left. Then the army of a ruler who comes to attack will destroy the city and the temple. The end will come like a flood. That will bring the war and destruction which God has prepared. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “After 434 years, the chosen leader/[lit. head] of God will-be-killed with no one to help him. Then a king will-arrive and his people will-harm the city and the temple. And according to what God has-destined, the destruction and war will-continue until the end.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “After those 434 years, the leader/king whom God has appointed will be killed when it seems that he will have accomplished nothing unjustly/without having done anything wrong. After that, the temple will be destroyed by the army of a powerful ruler. The city and the temple will be destroyed like a flood destroys everything. That will be the beginning of the war and destruction that God has decreed will happen.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Daniel 9:27)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 9:27:

  • Kupsabiny: “That king will make an agreement/covenant of seven years with many people. But in the middle of those years/period, that king will abolish burning of sacrifices and offerings. And then he shall raise a terrifying object in the House of God. That object will remain there until the person who raised it is destroyed to fulfill as God has planned.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “For one week this ruler will make a solid covenant with many, but in the middle of the week he will stop the sacrifices and offerings. And a frightening and repulsive image will be seen in the temple. That image will be there until the destruction decreed by God falls upon the ruler who set up that image.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “That king will-make a strong covenant to many people for the period/[lit. inside] of seven years. But after three years and a half, he will-put-a-stop to the offerings and he will-put/place in the temple the shameful thing that will-become a reason/motive to abandon the temple. It will-remain there until the end of that king will-arrive, according to what God has-destined.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “That ruler will make a strong agreement with many people. He will promise to do for seven years what he has said in that agreement. But when that time is half finished, he will prevent priests from giving any more offerings and sacrifices to God. A disgusting idol will be put on the highest part of the temple, and it will stay there until God gets rid of the one who put it there, which is what he said that he would do.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Daniel 10:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 10:1:

  • Kupsabiny: “And/But in the third year after Cyrus began to rule Persia a vision came to Daniel, (whose other name was Belteshazzar). That vision was of truth and it was about a great war. The meaning of that vision was revealed to Daniel.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “In the 3rd year of King Cyrus, Daniel (also known as Belteshazzar) was given a massage. This message is true. This was about a great war. In the vision the meaning of the message came to him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “In the third year of the reign of Cyrus of Persia, there was- a message -revealed to Daniel, also called Belteshazar. The message (was) true, and it [was] about a great war. This was-caused-to-be-understood to Daniel through a vision.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “During the third year that Cyrus was the king of Persia, I Daniel, who had been given the name Belteshazzar, received another message from God. The message was true, but it was very difficult for me to understand it. But later I understood the message because of the vision that I had seen.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Daniel 10:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 10:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “During those days, I Daniel complained/cried to God for three weeks.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “At that time I, Daniel, was in mourning for three weeks.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “This [was] what happened according to Daniel:
    That time, I mourned for three weeks.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “At that time I had been sad for three weeks about what had happened to Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Daniel 10:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Daniel 10:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “I stayed without eating food like that from the king’s home/palace or even meat. I did not drink any kind of wine or smear myself with sweet-smelling oils, I did like that until those three weeks had passed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I did not eat any tasty food, I did not eat any meat, I did not drink any wine, I did not put oil on [my] hair, until the three weeks were finished.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I did- not at-all -eat delicious food or meat, and I did- not -drink wine. I did- not at-all -put perfume on my body until the three weeks had-passed/were-over.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I did not eat any tasty food or any meat or drink any wine. I did not even put any perfumed oil on my face or hair for those three weeks.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Daniel 10:4)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “Then on the twenty fourth day of the first month, I stood on the bank of river Tigris.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “On the 24th day of the first month of that year, while I was standing on the bank of the great river Tigris,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “On the 24th day of the first month, I was-standing there beside great River of Tigris.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When those three weeks ended, on April 23, my companions and I were standing on the bank of the great Tigris River.” (Source: Translation for Translators)