Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:23:

• Kupsabiny: “So, I went to that place in the plain. I saw the light of God in that place like when I had seen (it) at the river of Kebar. I fell to the ground face down.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “So I went right-away to the valley, and I saw the powerful presence of the LORD like what I saw beside the River Kebar, and I knelt-down.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So I got up and went down to the valley. And I saw the glory of Yahweh there, like the glory that I had seen along the Kebar River/Canal. And I prostrated myself on the ground.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:24:

• Kupsabiny: “But/and the Spirit came to me and made me stand up and said to me, ‘Go and close/lock yourself in your house.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then I was-empowered by the Spirit and was-caused-to-stand, and was-told, ‘You (sing.) go-home and locked-up [-yourself] in your (sing.) house!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then the Spiritof God entered me and enabled me to stand up. He said to me, ‘Go into your house and stay inside it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:25:

• Kupsabiny: “You will be tied with ropes so that you cannot go to where people are.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “There, you (sing.) will-be-bound with a rope so-that you (sing.) can- not -be-with your (sing.) fellowmen.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “People will tie you with ropes, with the result that you will be unable to go out among the people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:26:

• Kupsabiny: “I shall make you be tongue-tied so that you cannot speak rebuking those people even though they are rebellious people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will-cause- you (sing.) -to-be-mute so-that you (sing.) can- not -warn these rebellious people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Even though they are very rebellious people, I will cause your tongue to stick to the roof of your mouth, with the result that you will be unable to talk and to rebuke them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 3:27:

• Kupsabiny: “But when I speak to you, I shall release your mouth. You shall speak to those people these words that I the God of power am saying. Some shall listen but others shall refuse to listen. The one who shall refuse, refuses because these people are rebellious.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But in the times that I speak to you (sing.), you (sing.) can- now -speak. And you (sing.) will-tell them the message that comes-from me, the Lord GOD. Some of them will-listen, but some will-not, for they are rebellious people.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Butthen when I speak to youagain, I will enable you to talk , and you will say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says,’ and you will tell them my message. Those who are willing to listento what you say will listen, butmany will refuse to listen, because they are rebellious people.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:1:

• Kupsabiny: “So, Ezekiel, take a brick and place it in front of you and then carve on top how the city of Jerusalem stayed/was.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The LORD still said to me, ‘Now, you (sing.) man, you take a brick and set it in-front of you, and draw Jerusalem there.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Yahweh also said to me, ‘You human, take a large clay tablet/brick and put it in front of you. Then on the clayengrave/draw on it lines that represent Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 4:2:

• Kupsabiny: “Then besiege/take control over it. Build things that are used to besiege it with, pile up things used to go into the city, tents of the soldiers, and place logs around the wall by which it can be pushed down.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then make it as-if being-sieged by the enemies. Set-up it with something-to-attack: little-towers, dirt mound something-to-climb the stone-wall, and woods to-demolish the stone-wall. And surround it with camps.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Thendraw figures around it to represent enemy soldiers who will surround the city. Make mounds around it and a dirt ramp up against the wallaround the city. Setfigures around it that represent battering rams/heavy logs that will break though the walls.” (Source: Translation for Translators)