Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Hosea 2:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 2:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “If she does not do like that,
    you shall remove her clothes to stand naked
    like when she was born.
    She shall become like a wilderness or be like a dry land.
    where thirst will spear her.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Otherwise I will make her as naked as on the day when she was born.
    I will make her withered up and desolate like a wilderness,
    and I will make her die of thirst.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “If she would- not indeed -stop I will-strip- her -naked and she will-become naked just-as when she (was) born. I will-make her like a desolate-place or desert, and she will-die in thirst.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Hosea 2:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 2:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall never show mercy to her children
    because they are children of outside (illegitimate).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I will not have any mercy on her sons and daughters.
    For they are offspring through adultery.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And you (plur.) her children I will- not -show-mercy, for you (plur.) (are) children of a woman who commits-adultery-with-a-man. What your (plur.) mother who bore you (plur.) does is shameful. She still said, ‘I will-go-along/will-pursue with my lovers/(lit. men) who are the ones-who-give to me my food, water, wool clothes and linen, oil, and wine.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Hosea 2:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 2:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “Their mother was promiscuous.
    The one who conceived them has disgraced herself.
    (She) said,
    ‘I shall go to my loved ones to feed me,
    to give me clothes of a high price
    and give me hair of sheep,
    olive oil and wine.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Their mother has been unfaithful,
    by whomever they were conceived was a shameful act of her.
    She said, ‘I will go following my lovers who give me bread,
    water, wool, clothes, olive oil and wine.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And you (plur.) her children I will- not -show-mercy, for you (plur.) (are) children of a woman who commits-adultery-with-a-man. What your (plur.) mother who bore you (plur.) does is shameful. She still said, ‘I will-go-along/will-pursue with my lovers/(lit. men) who are the ones-who-give to me my food, water, wool clothes and linen, oil, and wine.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Hosea 2:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 2:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “So I am going to block her path with thorn bushes
    and close her in with a wall so that she does not have a place to push through.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Since it is like that, I will lock her up,
    putting up a hedge of thorns to block her path.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Therefore I will-fence her with thorny bushes so-that she can- not -go-out.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Hosea 2:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 2:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “That woman will be following after he lovers and not get them.
    She shall search for those lovers and not see them.
    Then (she) will say,
    ‘I am going back to my husband from before,
    because I was in a better position then than I am in now.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “She will go in pursuit of her lovers, but she will not be able to catch up with them.
    She will search for them but will not find them.
    Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my former husband,
    for my former situation was better than my situation now.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “She will-chase her lovers/(lit. men) but she can- not -catch them. She will-look for them but she can- not -find them. Then she will-say, ‘I will- just -go back to my first husband, for my situation (is) better before than now.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Hosea 2:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 2:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “(She) did not understand that it was me who gave her wheat,
    wine and oil,
    or the silver and gold
    that she used to go and give to Baal.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “She never admitted that I was the one
    who gave her grain, new wine and olive oil
    and who gave her much silver and gold,
    that they used to do worship to the god Baal.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “She does- not -think that I was- the -one-who-gave her grains, wine/[lit. juice of grapes], oil, and many silver and gold which they made into an image of Baal.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Hosea 2:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 2:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “So, I shall make it so that she does not get a crop to harvest
    and also does not get wine.
    She will lack that hair of sheep
    which I used to give to her to make clothes from so that she shall go naked.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “‘So at harvest time I will seize the grain
    and grapes for wine that are reaped in the harvest,
    and I will take back my clothes
    that I have given her to wear.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Therefore at the time of harvest-season I will-take-back the grains and wine which I gave. And I will- also -take-back the wool clothes and linen which I gave in-order to cover her nakedness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Hosea 2:10)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall remove her clothes for her to stand naked before her lovers.
    There is no one who can saved her out of my hands.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I will make her stark naked,
    undressing her before her lovers.
    No one will be able to rescue her from my power.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And now I will-strip- her -naked in front of her lovers/[lit. men], and no one can-rescue her from my hand.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)