Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 6:9:
- Kupsabiny: “There they shall think about the pain they brought me when they pulled away from me and went to worship idols. (Their) eyes pushed (them) to join the idols. They will be ashamed on account of their sins and the things that they did that bring/brought them shame.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “as captives. There they will-remember me, and they will-realize that they caused- me -to-grieve by their betrayal and by-giving-much-importance of the little-gods. They will-detest themselves because of their evil and detestable-(things) that (they)-had-done.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When that happens, in those nations to which they have been forced to go, those who have escaped from being killed will think about me. They will remember that I was very grieved because of their turning away from me with their inner beings, and because they very much desired to worship their idols. They will hate/be very displeased with themselves because of the evil and detestable things that they have done.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 6:10:
- Kupsabiny: “Then/there they shall know/realize that I am God who did not tell a lie that I would punish (them).’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And they will-know that I the LORD, and I am serious in my warning that I will-do this disaster to them.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Andthey will realize that I, Yahweh, have punished them. They will realize that when I threatened to punish them, I surely intended to do that.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 6:11:
- Kupsabiny: “The God of power is saying, ‘Bite (sing.) your finger and frown and cry on account of the punishment/pain of sin and the evil things that the people of Israel have done, because some will be killed and hunger and epidemic will finish others.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Then the Lord GOD said to me, ‘You strike your knuckle to your palm, you stamp-your-feet, and shout, ‘Alas/[Abaw]! to show your mourning and anger to the people of Israel, because of all the wicked and detestable-(things) they did. This is the reason that they will-die through war, famine and disease.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “So this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, sayto you, Ezekiel: ‘Wring your hands and stamp your feet and cry outto show that you are distressed, and groanabout what will happen to your Israeli people because of all their wicked and detestable behavior. They will be killed bytheir enemies’ swords, they will die from hunger, and they will die from plagues.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 6:12:
- Kupsabiny: “An epidemic/plague kills those that are far from the war and those who are near will be speared and the one who escapes hunger/famine will destroy (him), Then all people shall see my fierceness.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Those who-are far-away will-die from disease. The ones-who-are near will-die by war. And the remaining-ones will-die by hunger/famine. In this way they will-experience/[lit. feel] my anger with them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Those who are far from Jerusalem will die from plagues, those who are close to Jerusalem will be killed by their enemies’ swords, and those who are still alive will die from hunger. That is how I will punish them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 6:13:
- Kupsabiny: “They will know that I am God when I have killed people where those idols are that they worship there at the altars, where it is raised up and on top of the hills, (at) every tree and at the foot of podo trees where they burned for their idols things that smell sweet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And they will-know that I am the LORD when the corpses of their fellowmen will-be-scattered with their little-gods/false-gods around their altars, in the mountains, on the peak/tip of the mountains, under the great/big trees, and under the thick/leafy oak trees, where they offer incense to their little-gods.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Some of your people’s corpses will lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hilltop and on all the mountaintops, under every big tree —at all the places where they burned incense tohonor their idols. Then they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 6:14:
- Kupsabiny: “I will destroy their land so it is finished completely from the desert of South to the city of Riblah in the North. I will not miss any area where there is an Israelite. Then, every person shall realize that I am God.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-punish them wherever they will-live, and I will-make-desolate their land from the desert in the south towards Diblah in the north. Then they will-know that I am- the -LORD.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “And I will stretch out my arm and cause your entire country to become an empty wasteland, from the desertin the far south to Diblahtown in the far north. Then they will realize that I, Yahweh, have the power to do the things that I say that I will do.’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 7:1:
- Kupsabiny: “God said to me,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh gave me another message. He said” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 7:2:
- Kupsabiny: “‘Ezekiel, the God of power is saying to the stomach of Israel: The end has arrived to the whole world/land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Man, I, the Lord GOD, say to the nation of Israel, ‘This is now the end of the entire land of Israel.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘You human, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say to the people of Israel: All of Israel will soon be destroyed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)