Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 40:18:
- Kupsabiny: “So who can you (plur.) compare with God?
Or/And what is like God?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “Then with whom will you compare God?
And with what idol will [you] compare him?” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “Therefore to whom will- you (plur.) -compare God? Or to what will- you (plur.) -compare him?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh is God;
he is the one who created the sky
and created and formed the earth.
He did not want it to remain with nothing living on it;
he wanted people to live on it.
He says, ‘I am Yahweh;
there is no other God.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
