Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:5:

• Kupsabiny: “Examine carefully what you (plur.) are doing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The LORD Almighty spoke like this, ‘Think carefully about what is happening to you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) think what are-happenings to you (plur.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I, Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of heaven, say this: Think about what is happening to you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:6:

• Kupsabiny: “You plant many crops but you get only a little. You eat but you are not satisfied. You drink wine but it is not enough for you. You put on warm clothes and you do not feel warm. It seems that you are paid something for the work that you are doing but it does not stay in the pocket.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “You plant much, but you reap only a little, though you eat you are not satisfied. You drink, but your thirst is never quenched. You wear clothes but you are not really warm. It is as if the money you earn is being put into a pocket full of holes.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) have- planted many, but you (plur.) will- only -harvest a little. You (plur.) have food, but not sufficient. You (plur.) have drinks, but these (are) not-enough/insufficient/[lit. lack-lack]. You (plur.) have clothes, but not enough to take-away the cold. You (plur.) are-receiving a salary, but this (is) quickly/easily finished-up/consumed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You have planted a lot of seeds, but you are not getting many crops to harvest. You eat food, but you never get enough. You drink wine, but you are still thirsty. You wear clothes, but you do not stay warm. You earn money, but things are very expensive, with the result that it is as though your money disappears because you are putting it in purses/pockets that have big holes in them.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:7:

• Kupsabiny: “The God of power is saying, ‘Examine carefully what you (plur.) are doing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The LORD Almighty says, "Think carefully about what is happening to you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Therefore you (plur.) think what are-happening to you (plur.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So this is what Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of heaven, says: ‘Think about what is happening to you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:8:

• Kupsabiny: “I am telling you! Go to the forest to bring wood/trees with which you can renew my House. Then is when I shall be happy and accept to be worshipped there.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Now go up into the mountains, bring wood, and rebuild my temple. Then I will be pleased. And my worship will take place in the right way," says the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Now, you (plur.) go-up into mountain and get some woods and you (plur.) rebuild the temple, so-that in this way I will-be-pleased/happy and honored. I, the LORD, (am) the(-one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then go up into the hills, cut down trees, and bring timber down here, and rebuild my temple. When you do that, I will be pleased, and I will be honored.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:9:

• Kupsabiny: “Look/consider, you thought you might get much food/harvest, but you got just a little. And that which you brought home, I blew away. Why did I do that? Because you have abandoned my House to be in ruins and every one among you are busy with building his (own) house.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “You expected to reap a lot, but the harvest was very small. I sent a wind to blow away the grain you brought home. Why did this happen? The LORD Almighty says, "It is because my temple lies in ruins, but you are busy building your own beautiful homes.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The LORD Almighty still said, ‘You (plur.) are-expecting great harvest but you (plur.) harvested only a little. And when you (plur.) brought this home I ruined it. I did this because my temple is-ruined/destroyed while each of you (plur.) (are) all-busy working-on/building your (plur.) houses.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You expected to harvest plenty of crops, but there were few crops to harvest. And when you brought the crops home, I caused them to spoil quickly. The reason that happened is that my temple is a ruins, while each of you are busy building your own beautiful houses.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:10:

• Kupsabiny: “That is what makes there be no rain and nothing is growing in the field.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “So it was because of your own doing that the dew did not fall from the sky and the earth did not produce food.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Therefore because of you (plur.) the heaven will- no-longer -give dew and the land will- no-longer produce.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “It is because of what you are doing that rain does not fall from the sky, and as a result there are no crops.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:11:

• Kupsabiny: “I sent the sun to burn the land, the hills, the food in the fields, the grape trees, olive trees, and all the food/crops that are in the fields to dry up. I sent famine to destroy people and animals. All the things that people had worked hard for were destroyed.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “I have sent drought on your fields, on the hills, on the grain, on the vineyards, on the olive groves, on all crops that grow on the land, on people and your domesticated animals, and on everything to which you put your hand.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I have-caused-to-become-dry the land and the mountains. Therefore the grains, wine/[lit. juice of grapes], oil, the other produces/harvests still, as-well-as the people, and their animals and (what they) planted were-affected.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I have caused a drought/severe lack of rain on the hills and on your fields. The result has been that your grain has withered, and your grapevines and olive trees and all your other crops have dried up. Because of that, you and your cattle do not have enough food, and the hard work that you have done will be for nothing.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 1:12:

• Kupsabiny: “Then, Zerubbabel and Joshua followed the words that God had said and also all the people who had returned from the land of Babylon followed (them). Those people listened to prophet Haggai whom God had sent. All the people obeyed/honored God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Then Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and the son of Jehozadak, Jeshua, the high priest, and all who had returned from Babylon began to obey the word of LORD their God and the message he sent through the prophet Haggai. They realized that the LORD their God had sent him, And the people took the fear of the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Zerubabel, Josue, and all their fellow Israelinhon who were-able-to-return to Israel from the captivity in Babylon obeyed the LORD. For they listened to what the LORD their God said through Prophet Haggai whom the LORD had-sent to them. In this way they respected the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then Zerubbabel and Jeshua and all the others of God’s people who were still alive obeyed the message that Yahweh our God had said, and they heeded the message that I had given them, because they knew that Yahweh our God had sent/appointed me. And the people revered Yahweh.” (Source: Translation for Translators)