Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:14:

• Kupsabiny: “Then Haggai said, ‘God is saying that it will happen like that for the people of this land. Everything that (they) will give/offer there on the altar is unclean.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Haggai said, "’The LORD says, this nation and what they do are also like that. They and everything they sacrifice is unclean.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then Haggai said, ‘Like-that also (it was) in-the-past with the people of Israel, says the LORD. Because their lives became unclean/dirty, whatever they were-doing and were-offering on the altar became unclean/dirty in the sight of the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then Haggai replied, ‘Yahweh says this: ‘It is the same with you people and with this nation. Everything that you do and all the sacrifices that you all offer are unacceptable to me because of the sins that you have committed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:15:

• Kupsabiny: “God said, ‘Please consider how things were before you began the building of my House.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Now think carefully from this day on how it was for you before the temple of the LORD was built.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “From now-on you (plur.) think what had-happened to you (plur.) before you (plur.) started to build the temple of the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Think about what has been happening to you before you began to lay the foundation of my temple.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:16:

• Kupsabiny: “You could think that maybe you would get twenty baskets of wheat, but you got only ten. You had thought that you would collect wine that filled up hundred liters where it was produced, but it was actually only forty.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “For the one who hoped for twenty muris of grain, there were only ten muris. One who came to take 50 liters of new wine only got to take 20 liters from the wine vat.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “For before then when you (plur.) go to the piles of wheat expecting to get 20 measures-volumes, what you (plur.) will-get (is) only 10 measures-volumes. And when you (plur.) go to the squessing-out-place of grapes expecting to get 50 gallons of wine, what you (plur.) will-get (is) only twenty gallons.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “When you expected to harvest 20 bushels of grain, you harvested only ten bushels. When someone went to a big wine vat to get 50 gallons of wine, there were only 20 gallons in the vat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:17:

• Kupsabiny: “I sent hail and insects to destroy your crops. In spite of that you did not ask me for forgiveness so you could reconcile yourselves and come to me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “I sent hot winds, mildew and hail to destroy you and all your crops. But you did not repent,’ says the LORD.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The LORD destroyed what you (plur.) have-planted through the hot wind, pestilence, and by causing-to-rain ice which seems-like stones/rocks, but you (plur.) still did- not -return to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I sent blight/hot winds and mildew and hail to destroy all your crops. But still you did not return to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:18:

• Kupsabiny: “This day is the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month when/after the building of my House was started. You shall from today see what is going to happen.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “‘From this day on think carefully. Today is the 24th day of the 9th month. Today is the day when the laying of the foundation of the LORD’s temple was completed. Think carefully.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Now (is) the 24th day of the ninth month, and the foundation of the temple has-been-completed now. You (plur.) see/look what will-happen from [now-on]/this-day.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Starting from this day, December 18, the day when you have laid the foundation of my new temple, continue to think carefully about your situation.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:19:

• Kupsabiny: “Even if there is no food in the granaries and the grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates and olives have not yet produced, I shall bless you from today onwards.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit।
  ‘‘From this day on I will bless you.’"” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Although there (is) no more wheat left, and the grapevine, fig trees, pomegranate, and olive tree have no more fruits, from now-on the LORD will-bless you (plur.).’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Is there now any grain seed left in your barns? No, because you have eaten the small amount that you harvested. And there is no fruit on your grapevines and fig trees and pomegranate trees and olive trees.
  But, from now on, I will bless you!’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:20:

• Kupsabiny: “In that twenty-fourth day of that month, God told Haggai another message again to tell to Zerubbabel the king of Judah. He said, ‘It is near for me to shake up/heaven and down/earth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “On the 24th day of the same month, the LORD spoke to Haggai a second time,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “On that very day the LORD spoke again to Haggai.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “On that same day, Yahweh gave another message to me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Haggai 2:21:

• Kupsabiny: “In that twenty-fourth day of that month, God told Haggai another message again to tell to Zerubbabel the king of Judah. He said, ‘It is near for me to shake up/heaven and down/earth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “‘Tell Zerubbabel, governor of Judah I will shake the heavens and the earth.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “He said, ‘Tell Zerubabel that I will-shake the heavens and the earth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “He said, ‘Tell Zerubbabel the governor of Judah that I am going to shake the sky and the earth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)