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

• Kupsabiny: “Israel has cried out to me saying,
  ‘We honor you, oh, our God.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Israel pleaded with me,
  ‘O our God, we Israelites know you.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They call me saying, ‘God of Israel, we (incl.) acknowledge you (sing.).’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “My Israeli people cry out to me,
  ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 8:3:

• Kupsabiny: “But Israel refused what was good
  so an enemy shall chase them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “But whatever is good, that, Israel has rejected.
  An enemy will pursue him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But they rejected what (is) right/[lit. good], so their enemy will-pursue them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good,
  their enemies will pursue them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kupsabiny: “They appointed kings that I have not accepted
  and they chose leaders without asking me.
  They shaped things of silver and gold to become idols so that they worship (them)
  and then they brought on themselves destruction.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “They have chosen kings without asking me,
  They have chosen officials without asking me.
  They have made idols from their silver and gold
  for their own destruction.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They chose kings and officers whom I did- not -choose. They made little-gods/false-gods from their silver and gold. And these little-gods are-what-brought destruction to them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The Israel people appointed their last three kings,
  but they did not ask me if I agreed to what they were doing.
  They chose their own leaders
  without asking if I would approve of them.
  They used their own silver and gold to make for themselves idols,
  and doing that led them to be destroyed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 8:5:

• Kupsabiny: “Oh, people of Samaria,
  I shall throw away that idol of a calf they have formed.
  My anger rises up because of them.
  Until when will you do sin?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “O Samaria! Throw away your bull-calf idol!
  My anger has been burning against them.
  How long will they be incapable of purity?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I reject the little-god cow of those (who) come-from-Samaria. My anger burns-up against them. Until when yet will- they -live without sin?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You people of Samaria, throw away your idol that resembles a calf!
  I am extremely angry with you people!
  How long will you do things that cause you to be unacceptable to me?” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 8:6:

• Kupsabiny: “It was an Israelite who formed that thing in Samaria,
  that idol is not to be worshipped like God.
  That thing will be crushed completely.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “They are Israelites.
  Craftsmen made this bull,
  it is not God.
  That bull calf of Samaria
  will be broken in pieces.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The little-god cow of Samaria was- just -made by a silversmith who came-from-Israel. That (is) not God! Very surely that will-be-smashed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Someone in Israel made that idol for you;
  but I am God and it is not.
  So that idol of a calf in Samaria must be smashed to pieces.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 8:7:

• Kupsabiny: “When they plant a wind
  they harvest a whirlwind.
  The wheat has no food at all in their heads
  and it does not give any flour.
  Even if it did produce food
  foreigners would have eaten it all up.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “They sow in the wind and
  will harvest the whirlwind.
  Not even a head will be borne on the stalks.
  it will not produce any flour.
  Even if there are any,
  foreigners will get to eat them. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “(It is) just like they are-sowing the wind and harvesting the whirlwind. (It is) also like wheat without stalk, this can- not -give food. But even-if it-could-give, the ones from-another place are the-(ones-who) will-devour it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The foolish thing that the people of Israel have done is like trying to plant wind;
  but what they harvest will be like a whirlwind.
  So the grain that they planted will have no heads on the stalks,
  and as a result there will be no grain from which to make flour.
  And if it did produce good grain,
  foreigners would come and steal it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kupsabiny: “Other communities will swallow Israel.
  The land will be like a pot that broke to become useless.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Israel has been swallowed up,
  and has become like a useless thing
  in the midst of the nations.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Its-as-if Israel is-being-devoured by other nations. And now that she is- already -mixed with them, she became like an equipment/something-for-use that (is) without value.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The people of Israel will be defeated by their enemies;
  they will be scattered among other nations and become worthless.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 8:9:

• Kupsabiny: “The people of Israel went to Assyria
  and wander around like a wild donkey.
  Ephraim has sold herself to their lovers.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Like a wild donkey going hither and thither, all alone
  they went to Assyria.
  By taking wages, Ephraim has sold herself off to her lovers.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Its-as-if she (is) like a wild donkey that is-by-itself and wandering. She asked-for-help from Asiria; she paid the other nations so-that she would-be-helped.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Like donkeys that are looking for mates,
  they have requested help from Assyria;
  they paid money to the leaders of Assyria
  in order to persuade those leaders to protect them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)