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

• Kupsabiny: “On that day there will be screaming instead of singing in the place where idols are worshipped/prayed to. The bodies/corpses will be many and they will be spread everywhere but there is nothing a person can say in front of God.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The Lord God said, ‘In that day the song of the temple will be turned into the sound of weeping. Dead bodies are thrown around! Shut up!’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “In that day that they will-be-punished, the joyful songs in the temple will-become crying/weeping for many dead-ones will-be-scattered everywhere. Therefore you (sing.) just keep-silent. And then never will-be-heard any noise. I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Soon, instead of singing in the temple, they will be wailing. There will be corpses everywhere. So, remain silent (OR, Everyone will be silent). These things will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kupsabiny: “You are saying, ‘When will the new moon festival be over so that we can go and sell our food? When will the day of Sabbath be over so we can go and sell our wheat? We want to squeeze the things we use to measure with so that we can sell our things for a high price.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “You say,
  "We can’t wait for the New Moon holy day to finish,
  so that we can sell our grain.
  We can’t wait for the Sabbath to end,
  so that we can sell wheat?
  we can cheat by making measuring vessels smaller
  and leads heavier and using false scales.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) are in-a-hurry that the Feast of the New Moon or the Rest Day will-be-finished so-that you (plur.) can- now -sell grains and can-cheat when you (plur.) measure-liquid-and-dry-goods, measure-the-length/size, measure-the-volume-and-weight” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You habitually say,
  ‘We wish that the new moon festival would end soon,
  in order that restrictions on doing business during the festival will be ended
  and we can sell grain.
  We wish that the Sabbath would end soon,
  in order that we will again be permitted to sell our wheat’—
  and when you sell it,
  you charge a big price for it,
  and you cheat people by using scales that do not weigh correctly.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kupsabiny: “We will sell wheat of poor value for much money. We will seek a poor person/an orphan and make (him) our slave if (he) is unable to pay back for a debt of shoes.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “We shall be able to buy the poor with silver
  and the destitute with a pair of sandals,
  and sell the wheat with chaff.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) (are) in-a-hurry that (you) can-sell wheat mixed with chaff, and can-buy a poor man/person who was-sold as a slave because he could- not -pay his loan, even-though his loan was just a pair of sandals.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You sell wheat that you have swept up from the floor, and as a result it is mixed with dirt.
  Those who are needy and poor and who do not have money to buy things,
  you cause them to become your slaves
  by buying them with the small amount of silver with which you could buy a pair of sandals!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kupsabiny: “God whom Israel is proud of has sworn by himself, ‘I shall never forget anything bad that people have done.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “This is what the LORD swear an oath, by own name the pride of Jacob, "I will never forget any of their works.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Therefore the LORD, the God whom you (plur.) boast-about being descendants of Jacob is-swearing, ‘I will- never -forget all the wickedness which you (plur.) have-done.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Yahweh has declared, ‘Although you are very proud of being descendants of Jacob, I solemnly declare that I will not forget the evil things that you have done.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kupsabiny: “So, I will make the earth shake so that all people can feel the consequences. The whole world/earth will tremble, the world/land/earth will move quickly and sink like the river Nile.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Does not the earth tremble because of it?
  Do not all who live in it lament?
  The earth will rise like the Nile River at flood time;
  it will heave up,
  then fall down again. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Because of this I will-cause- your (plur.) land -to-shake and you (plur.) will-cry/weep. Your (plur.) land will-shake very much, as-if like the high-tide and low-tide of the Nile River in Egipto.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Because of those evil things, your country will certainly soon be shaken,
  and all of you will mourn.
  It will be as though it will repeatedly rise and fall
  like the Nile River that gets full of water and overflows it banks
  and then settles back into its riverbed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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

• Kupsabiny: “On that day I shall make the sun disappear/get lost when it is still day and it becomes dark before the day ends.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The Lord God said,
  ‘on that day " I will make the sun go down at noon,
  and darken the earth at midday.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “On that day that I will-punish you (plur.), I will-cause- the sun -to-set at noon, therefore (it) will-become-dark even-though (it is) still day-time. I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “On the day when I punish my people,
  I will cause the sun to set at noontime,
  and the entire earth will be dark in the daytime.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Amos 8:10:

• Kupsabiny: “I shall turn your feasts to become mourning and turn your joy to become tears. I shall make you wear clothes of mourning and shave your heads on account of disaster. You shall be like parents who mourn for their only child. That day will be painful until the end.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “I will turn your festivals into mourning
  and all your songs into weeping.
  I will make all of you wear sackcloth
  and shave your heads.
  I will do that time like mourning for an only son.
  That day will be like a bitter day.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will-turn your (plur.) marrying/rejoicing during feast into crying/weeping, and I will-turn into a lament your (plur.) singings. I will-clothe you (plur.) with sack and I will-command you (plur.) to become-bald to show that you (plur.) are-mourning, like the parents who cry/weep for the death of their only child. But more very painful yet (is) the end of these punishments.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I will cause your religious celebrations to become times when you mourn;
  instead of singing, everyone will be weeping.
  Because of what I will do, all of you will wear rough sackcloth and shave your heads
  to show that you are sorrowing.
  I will cause that time to be like when people mourn after an only son has died.
  All of you will be extremely sad all of that day.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)