Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Hosea 4:8)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “You are eating the sacrifices that sweep away sin
    and are happy for the mistakes of my people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The priests eat the purification offering that the people bring.
    So when the people sin, the priests rejoice.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) want that my people will-sin so-that you (plur.) can-eat their offerings for becoming-clean.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The priests get food from the offerings that the people bring in order to be forgiven for having sinned,
    so the priests want the people to sin more and more
    in order that the people will bring them more and more offerings.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Hosea 4:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 4:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall punish you also
    like when I shall punish the people.
    I shall punish you for your behavior
    and repay you for your evil/sins.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Like the people, the priests also will receive punishment.
    I will punish them. And I will repay them,
    for the evil deeds they themselves have done.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “So as I will-punish the people, I will- also -punish you (plur.) priests. I will-punish you (plur.) for your (plur.) behavior; I will-repay you (plur.) for what- you (plur.) -are-doing.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The priests are as sinful as the other people,
    and I will punish all of them for what they have done;
    I will pay them back for the evil things that they have done.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Hosea 4:10)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “You (plur.) will be eating and not be satisfied,
    you will commit adultery and not get children
    because you have refused me God
    and have followed idols.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “‘They will eat, but they will not be satisfied.
    They will commit prostitution, but their numbers will not increase.
    For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselves,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) do-eat indeed, but you (plur.) will- not -be-satisfied/full. You (plur.) worship little-gods which you (plur.) believe can-give a child, but you (plur.) can- not -cause-to-give-birth because you (plur.) rejected me” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The priests will eat, but they will still be hungry;
    they will have sex with prostitutes, but they will not have any children,
    because they have abandoned me, Yahweh,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Hosea 4:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 4:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “Beer has finished/put an end to
    the wisdom of my people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “to prostitution, because of wine and new wine,
    my people have lost their understanding.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “in-order-to worship little-gods.
    ‘My people, the new and old wine takes-away your (plur.) good thinking.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “and they are devoting themselves to sleeping with prostitutes,
    and to drinking old wine and new wine,
    which results in their not being able to think clearly.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Hosea 4:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 4:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “My people are asking words from idols.
    They entrust themselves to the stick of a sorcerer.
    They went astray because they commit adultery as they worship idols
    and abandon me God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They take advice from wooden idols,
    they take answers from wooden sticks.
    The spirit of prostitution leads them on wrong roads,
    and they are unfaithful to God.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) ask for advice from your (plur.) wooden little-god. And according to you (plur.), it answers. The spirit who pushes you (plur.) to worship little-gods, is- leading- you (plur.) -astray, so you (plur.) turned-away from me like a woman who committed-adultery-with-men.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘You my people request wooden idols
    to tell you what you should do!
    Like prostitutes who have left/abandoned their husbands,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Hosea 4:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 4:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “(They) are doing sacrifices there on the mountains/hills.
    They bring their gifts to the hills
    and where there are big trees,
    because (they) have a good shade.
    So, your girls/daughters commit adultery
    and the wives of your sons are promiscuous.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They do worship on the mountain peaks,
    and on hills, in the pleasant shade under tall,
    spreading trees, they burn incense.
    That is why your daughters turn to prostitution,
    and your daughters-in-law are committing adultery.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) offer-offering and burn incense on the very-top of the mountains and hills, there under the tall and spreading trees, for these (are) good places-of-shade. So your (plur.) daughters have-illicit-sex and your (plur.) daughter-in-laws commit-adultery-with-men.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “you have abandoned me your God, and you are chasing after other gods on the tops of hills and mountains;
    you burn incense under oak trees, poplar trees, and other trees
    where there is nice/pleasing shade.
    So your daughters have become prostitutes,
    and your daughters-in-law have committed adultery.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Hosea 4:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 4:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “But I am not going to punish your daughters and the wives of your sons
    on account of adultery.
    It is like that because it is the men that join with prostitutes
    and sleep with those prostitutes who are at the place of prayer.
    So, those people will perish
    who have no wisdom.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “‘I will not punish your daughters
    when they turn to prostitution,
    I will not punish your daughters in law,
    when they commit adultery,
    Because the men are also using prostitutes,
    and they sacrifice to Idols with them,
    Therefore, people without sense will be destroyed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But I will- not -punish them for what- they -are-doing, for you (plur.) men yourselves are- also -having-sex with the women who sell their body at the temple, and you (plur.) even offer with them offerings for the little-gods. Therefore because you (plur.) people have- no -understanding about the truth, you (plur.) will-be-destroyed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But it is not only your daughters
    whom I will punish for having become prostitutes,
    and it is not only your daughters-in-law
    whom I will punish for committing adultery,
    because the men also are having sex with prostitutes,
    and they offer sacrifices
    with the prostitutes who search for men at the shrines of the idols.
    They are all foolish people, and they will all be ruined.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Hosea 4:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 4:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “Even though you people of Israel have committed adultery,
    do not make the people of Judah catch/hold on to that evil.
    Do not go to Gilgal or to Beth-aven
    and do not swear by the living God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “O Israel, even though you commit adultery,
    may Judah not become guilty of this.
    ‘Do not go to Gilgal
    nor to Beth-Aven either.
    Do not swear an oath, giving witness to the living LORD. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Those (who) come-from-Israel, even-though you (plur.) turned-away from me like a woman who committed-adultery-with-man, you (plur.) do- not -implicate those (who) come-from-Juda.
    ‘And you (plur.) who come-from-Juda, [you (plur.)] do- not -go to Gilgal and to Bet Aven in-order to worship me or make a vow in my name.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You Israeli people have abandoned me
    like those who commit adultery have abandoned their spouses.
    But do not cause the people of Judah to sin also.
    Do not go to Gilgal or go up to Beth-Aven towns
    to worship idols there.
    Do not make solemn promises there, saying ‘Just as surely as Yahweh lives, I will do what I am promising.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)