complete verse (2 Kings 19:25)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 19:25:

  • Kupsabiny: “Hey, do you not realize/understand these words/matters?
    I am the one who prepared this from long ago.
    I prepared these things already/earlier to happen today.
    I wanted you to overthrow strongly guarded cities
    destroying them all completely!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “’Long ago I planned to do like this.
    What! Have you never heard?
    Now I have indeed fulfilled it.
    It is I who have given you the power to destroy cities surrounded by walls into heaps. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “(It is) true that you (sing.) have-destroyed the stone-walled towns.
    But did- you (sing.) not -know that I already determined this a-long-time-ago?
    A-long-time-ago I already planned this to happen and now I am-fulfilling it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘But I reply, ‘Have you never heard that long ago I determined that those things would happen?
    I planned it long ago,
    and now I have been causing it to happen.
    I planned that your army would have the power to capture many cities that were surrounded by high walls,
    and cause them to become piles of rubble.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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