Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:6:
- Kupsabiny: “Not to where there are many people whom it is hard for you to speak to (them) or/and who do not hear your language and you do not hear theirs. If I had sent you to other communities where you do not hear their words, they would have listened to you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If I will-send you (sing.) to the people whose language is different and hard to-understand, surely they will-listen to you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I am sending you to people whose language you understand very well. If I were sending you to people whose language was difficult for you to understand, they wouldbe surprised and pay attention to what yousay to them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:7:
- Kupsabiny: “But there is not even one person of Israel who wants to hear (the) words. (They) do not even want to hear words from me. These people are people who have dried heads (are stubborn) and rebellious.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But the people of Israel will- not -listen to you (sing.), for they do- not -want to-listen to me. All of them are hard-headed and stubborn.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But the Israeli people do not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to me. They do not want to listen because they are all very stubborn.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:8:
- Kupsabiny: “So, Therefore, I shall also make you stubborn like they are.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But I will-make you (sing.) more hard-headed and stubborn than they,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But I will enable you to be as stubborn and tough as they are.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:9:
- Kupsabiny: “I shall make you harder than a stone. Do not be afraid of those people and also do not tremble even though those people are rebellious.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “as hard as a flint stone. So you (sing.) do- not -be-afraid of them, for you (sing.) already know that they are rebellious people.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I will cause you to be as firm/unbreakable as the hardest stone, like flint. So, even though they are very rebellious people, do not be afraid of them; do not allow them to cause you to be afraid.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:10:
- Kupsabiny: “Ezekiel, listen carefully and remember everything that I am saying to you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He still said to me, ‘Man, listen carefully and ) keep [it] in your (sing.) heart all that I say to you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “He also said to me, ‘You human, listen very carefully to what I say, and keep thinking about it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:11:
- Kupsabiny: “So, go to where your people are in that land you were taken/driven to and go and tell them these words that I the God of power am telling you, whether (they) accept or reject (them).’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Now, you (sing.) go to your (sing.) fellowmen who were-taken-captive with you (sing.), and tell to them the message that comes from me, the Lord GOD. Do this whether they will-listen or not.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Go to your fellow Israelis who arehere after being exiled/forced to leave their country, and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says,’ and then tell them my message, whether they want to hear it or whether they do not want to hear it.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Then the Spirit carried me and I heard behind me a rumbling voice that were saying, ‘The God in heaven be exalted!’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then the Spirit lifted- me -up, and I heard behind me a voice that roared which saying, ‘Praise be to the powerful presence of the LORD in heaven!’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Thenin the vision the Spiritof God lifted me up, and I heard behind mesomeone speaking very loudly, like a loud rumbling sound. I heard someone say, ‘Praise our glorious Yahweh in the place where he livesin heaven!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:13:
- Kupsabiny: “I heard the wings of the animals flapping, the legs/wheels squeaked and made noise.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And I also heard the sound of the wings of the living creatures that were-brushing-against-each-other, and the noise of the wheels beside it as-if it thundering.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I heard the sound of the wings of the four living creatures brushing against each other, andI also heard the sound of the wheels that were beside them. It was a loud rumbling sound.” (Source: Translation for Translators)