Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 12:28)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 12:28:

  • Kupsabiny: “So, tell those people, ‘The God of power is saying: My words are not far from being fulfilled. Everything that I am saying will be fulfilled. It is I the God of power who is speaking.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Therefore say this to them: ‘I, the Lord GOD, am-saying that what I said will- very soon now -be-fulfilled. Yes, this will- now -happen.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Therefore say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says: I will no longer delaycausing to happen any of the things that I have prophesied. Whatever I have predicted willvery soon happen.’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 13:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 13:1:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then 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)

complete verse (Ezekiel 13:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 13:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “‘Listen, Ezekiel, scold those prophets of Israel who are only using their heads. Tell (them) to hear what I am saying.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Man, you said against to not true prophets of Israel who are-prophesying of their-own only. Tell them to listen to this message of mine:” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘You human, prophesya warning against the prophets in Israel who are prophesying. Some of them are prophesying things that they themselves have imagined/thought. Say to them: ‘Listen to what Yahweh says!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 13:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 13:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “The God of power is saying: These prophets will be destroyed these confused (people) who use their own heads alone to predict things/words that the wind brings.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I, the LORD God, am-saying that pitiful are the foolish prophets who are just inventing their prophesies, and they indeed have not seen a vision.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “He says, ‘Terrible things will happen to those wicked prophets who proclaim their own ideas and have not seen anyvisions from me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 13:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 13:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “Oh, stomach of Israel, your prophets are jackals. These people just go around screaming/howling in the deserted homes/places.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “O Israel, your prophets are-like wild dogs who-are there in the ruined places.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You Israeli people, your prophets areas useless as jackals/wolves that only dig through the ruinsof a city.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 13:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 13:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “They do not plaster/finish the wall where it fell so as to build it anew. So the community of Israelites are unable to defend themselves in battle on the day when God shall punish people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They do not warn the people. As-if just like they did not repair the ruined stone-walls of Israel so-that it would-become-strong/firm when war will-come, in the day that the LORD will-punish.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Those prophets have not helped you Israeli people to repair the places where thecity walls have been broken/crumbled. That needs to be done in order that the walls will be strong at the time when I, Yahweh, allow your enemies to attack you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 13:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 13:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “Their revelations are a lie and they predict lies. They pretend that they speak for me God, but I have not sent any person. (They) want even that it is accepted that the words they are saying are true.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Their vision is not true and their prophecies are lies. They say that it comes-from the LORD what they are-saying, but the-truth-is I did- not -send them. And they still wait that what they spoke-about will-be-fulfilled.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The visions and prophecies of those prophets are false. They say, ‘Yahweh told me this,’ but I have not sent themto you to be my prophets. But they expect that what they prophesy will truly happen!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 13:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 13:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “I am telling them, ‘The prophesying you are doing and the revelations you get are based on a lie. You are saying that it is I God who has spoken but I have not spoken to anyone among you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Their vision is not true and their prophecies are lies. They say that was what I said, but I did- not -say those.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “They say that they have seen visions, but those visions are false, and the things that they prophesy are lies. They say, ‘Yahweh told me this,’ but I have told them nothing!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)