complete verse (Isaiah 40:18)

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)
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