Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:13:

• Kupsabiny: “Your soldiers are weak. All the gates of your land are open. Fire will destroy the locking mechanisms of those doors.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Your soldiers are not strong.
  They are like helpless women.
  The main gates of your land are wide open
  to your enemies.
  The bars of the gates have been eaten by fire.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “[You (plur.)] look-at your (plur.) soldiers — as-if-like they (are) women! The bars of the entrance/gate of your (plur.) city will-be-burned-up, therefore it (is) now easy to-be-entered by your (plur.) enemies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Look at your soldiers!
  They will be as weak/helpless as women!
  The gates of your city will be opened wide
  to allow your enemies to enter them,
  and then the bars of those gates will be burned.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:14:

• Kupsabiny: “Draw water and prepare yourselves, as you are being surrounded! Tread on clay to make from it bricks with which you can strengthen your walls.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Fill up the water supply before the siege begins.
  Strengthen your fortresses.
  trample mud, make bricks,
  and repair the city walls.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Okay, you (plur.) get-ready for the coming/arrival of your (plur.) enemies. You (plur.) draw-water so- that you (plur.) have-something to-drink. You (plur.) make- more -sturdy/firm your (plur.) stone-walls (surrounding-city) around your (plur.) city; you (plur.) make bricks and you (plur.) repair this (city-those) walls.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Store up water now to use when your enemies surround the city!
  Repair the forts!
  Dig up clay and trample it to make it soft,
  and put it into molds to make bricks to repair the walls!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:15:

• Kupsabiny: “Fire will consume you and you will be killed with swords and die like leaves that army worms have eaten. You have multiplied until you are now as many as locusts.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “But whatever you do, the fire will consume you.
  You will be killed by the sword,
  it will eat you like the locust.
  Even if you become numerous like grasshoppers
  there will be no escape.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But there in your (plur.) very-own place you (plur.) will-die through fire and sword, like the fields which have-been-attacked by the locusts.
  You (plur.) became-many like locusts!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Nevertheless, your enemies will burn your city;
  they will kill you with their swords;
  they will kill you like locusts destroy crops.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:16:

• Kupsabiny: “You have merchants that are more than the stars, but they have flown away like locusts.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “You have increased your merchants
  more than the stars in the sky.
  But just as grasshoppers do
  having stripped the land they fly away.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) have-caused-to-become-many your (plur.) business-men as-if more than the number of the stars in the sky. But they will- be like the locusts that when they have-finished-up the plants they flew far-away.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “In your city there are now very many merchants;
  it seems that there are more of them than there are stars.
  But when your city is being destroyed, those merchants will take the valuable things and disappear
  like locusts that strip the leaves from plants and then fly away.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:17:

• Kupsabiny: “Your guards are many like locusts that have sat down on a wall when it became cold and when the sun heats up, they fly off going away and no one knows where they have gone.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Those with responsibility for security are like grasshoppers.
  Your rulers are like a swarm of locust that hangs on the wall in winter.
  When the sun shines, they fly away.
  No one knows where they went.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Your (plur.) guards and officers are-as-if like the locusts which (are) in great numbers, which stay on the stone-walls when the season/time (is) cold. But when the sun indeed rises, they fly away and no one can-know where they went.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Your leaders are also like a swarm of locusts
  that crowd together on the stone fences/walls on a cold day,
  and then fly away when the sun comes up,
  and no one knows where they have gone.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:18:

• Kupsabiny: “Oh, you king of Assyria, your leaders are engulfed in sleep. Your famous/honored people are sprawled around and people are scattered on the hillside and there is not even one who can call (them) to come home.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “O king of Assyria, your shepherds are sleeping.
  Your nobles are lying down.
  Your people are scattered on the mountains.
  There is no one to bring them to you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “King of Asiria, your (sing.) ones-who-rule will-die. Your (sing.) people will-scatter to/on the mountains, and no-one now will-gather them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “O King of Assyria, your officials will all be dead ;
  your important people will lie down and rest forever.
  Your people will be scattered over the mountains,
  and there will no one to gather them together.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nahum 3:19:

• Kupsabiny: “Nothing can be done about where you have been wounded, and it is not possible for your wounds to be healed/treated. All the people who have heard about how you were destroyed clap the hands in happiness. It is like that because no country has escaped your cruelty.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “No medicine can heal your wound.
  Your wound is a deadly wound.
  Those who hear the bad news about you will clap their hands for joy.
  Because who has not suffered under your never-ending cruelty?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You (sing.) will-become like a wounded man whose wound will- no-longer be-healed. All who can-hear the news of your (sing.) destructions will-clap-(their-hands) for joy, for you (sing.) always mistreat all of them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You are like someone who has a wound that cannot be healed;
  it will be a wound that causes him to die.
  And all those who hear about what has happened to you will clap their hands joyfully.
  They will say, ‘Everyone has suffered because he continually was very cruel to us.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)