Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Micah 7:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Micah 7:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “Do not pull a neighbor to your side
    or rely on a friend.
    Guard your mouth
    of/about what you are saying to your loved one.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Do not trust your neighbor.
    Do not believe a friend.
    Be even careful what you say to your own wife
    who lives with you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Because wickedness is now spreading-out, you (plur.) no-longer trust your friends, even still your (plur.) close friends. And you (plur.) be-careful in what you (plur.) are telling even to your (plur.) beloved wife.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Micah 7:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Micah 7:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “Because a son despises his father
    and a (young) daughter hates her mother.
    Also a daughter-in-law gets up
    to refuse (reciprocally) her mother-in-law.
    People who are relatives hate one another.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The son despises his father
    and the daughter treats her mother badly.
    The daughter-in-law rebels against her mother-in-law.
    People’s enemies are the people in their own households.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For this time, a son is not respecting his father, a daughter is fighting-against her mother, and a daughter-in-law is fighting-against her mother-in-law. Therefore a member itself of a family of a man is her/his enemy.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Micah 7:7)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “But I trust in God.
    He is the one who shall save me
    and he will listen to me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “But as for me, I will keep my hope on the LORD,
    I wait for God my savior;
    because He will listen to my prayer” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘But I on-the-other-hand, will-trust surely to the LORD my God. I will-wait for him that he will-save me. And he will- surely -listen to my prayer.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Micah 7:8)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “Do not rejoice, oh, my enemies,
    when things happen to me.
    Even if I have fallen
    I shall get up again.
    Even though I am in darkness,
    God is my light.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Oh, my enemy, do not sneer at me and rejoice.
    Though I have fallen down, I will stand again.
    Though I sit in darkness,
    the LORD will be my light” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The Israelinhon said, ‘Our (incl.) enemies should not mock us (incl.). For even we (incl.) had-been-destroyed let us (incl.) rise-up again. And even though we (incl.) are in darkness the LORD is our (incl.) light.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Micah 7:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Micah 7:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall persevere/accept God to punish me
    because I have sinned against him.
    But he shall help me in the end,
    punishing my enemies.
    He shall bring me to the light
    and he shall do for me justice/truth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Until the LORD speak in favor of me
    and he confirms my rights
    I will bear his wrath.
    Because I have committed sin against him.
    He will bring me out into the light
    and I will see his righteousness.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Because we (incl.) had-sinned against the LORD, (it is) proper that we (incl.) should suffer his punishment to us (incl.) until he will-take-side with us (incl.) and give justice. We (incl.) can see his saving of us (incl.) by his bringing us (incl.) into the light.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Micah 7:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Micah 7:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then my enemies will see (it)
    and they will be shamed those who were saying,
    ‘Where is your (plur.) God?’
    I shall see my enemies fall
    and (they) shall be trampled down
    like mud on the road.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Seeing this my enemies who
    said "where is LORD your God?" will be very ashamed.
    My eyes will see their fall
    They will be like mud trampled in the street.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “This can-be-seen by our (incl.) enemies and they will-be-disgraced. For they are mocking us (incl.) before which says, ‘Where is now the LORD your (plur.) God?’ It will not take-long that we (incl.) will-see their destruction. They will become like mud being-trampled-down in the street.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Micah 7:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Micah 7:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “Oh, Jerusalem,
    a day will arrive
    when your walls shall be rebuilt
    and your land expanded.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “O Israel, the day of your rebuilding walls will come,
    the day for extending your borders will come.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Micas said to those from-Jerusalem, ‘The time will-come that you (plur.) will-cause-to-stand again your (plur.) stone-walls and at that time your (plur.) territory will-be-widened more.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Micah 7:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Micah 7:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “People will be drawn to you there/then
    coming from Assyria and Egypt,
    returning from Egypt to Euphrates
    and even countries far away.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “In that day people will come
    to you from the country of Assyria and the cities of Egypt.
    People from countries between Egypt up to the Euphrates River,
    and from the great ocean
    to the mountains will come to you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “At that time also the people will-come to you (plur.) from Asiria and the cities/towns of Egipto, and the places from Egipto going to the River Eufrates, and from the far places.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)