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)
