Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 15:2:

• Kupsabiny: “‘Ezekiel, is a vine the same as a tree? Is the branch of a vine really better than the branch of any tree in the forest?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘Man, is a branch of grapes better than a branch of other wood/trees?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “‘You human, the wood of a grapevine is certainly not more useful that the branches of the trees in a forest.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 15:3:

• Kupsabiny: “Can the branch of a vine make something? Can you even make a peg to hang things on?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Can its branches be used for anything? Can it be used as a peg/something-to-hang-something-on/to?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “No one ever takes a branch of a grapevine and makes anything useful from it. No one even makes pegs from them to hang things on.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 15:4:

• Kupsabiny: “A fire is not increased at all by it. And when the back and front end have burned to become black and the middle is burning brightly is it then still possible for you to make anything from those trees?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Of course not! Possibly it can only be used as-fuel; but even still it quickly becomes- just -ashes” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “And after a branch of a grapevine is thrown into a fire, and the fire burns both ends and chars/scorches the branch in the middle, will it then be useful for anything?” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 15:5:

• Kupsabiny: “If you cannot make anything before it is burned, what about when it has burned to destruction?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Therefore this has no value before it is burnt and especially if it is now burnt-up!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “No; if it was not useful for anything before it was burned, it certainly cannot bemade into something useful after the fire has burned and charred it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 15:6:

• Kupsabiny: “So, the God of power is saying: Like I have removed the vine from the forest and it is burned, I shall punish the people of Jerusalem.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘Now/(discoure marker), I, the Lord GOD, say that the residents of Jerusalem are like grapes that grow along-with the trees in the forest. Because they have no value, I will-burn- them -up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: The wood of grapevines is useful only for fuel in a fire. Similarly, the people who live in Jerusalemare useless.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 15:7:

• Kupsabiny: “I shall punish (them) even though (they) have escaped the first fire. The fire will burn those people finishing (them) and that is when you will know that I am God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Yes, I will- surely -punish them, and even if they can-flee from a fire, they will- still -be-consumed/devoured by another fire. Then they will-know that I am the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I will reject them. It will be as though they have escaped from a fire, but there will still be a fire that will burn them up. And when I punish them, you people who remain alive will know that I, Yahweh, have done it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 15:8:

• Kupsabiny: “I will make the land desolate because those people do no longer trust me. It is me God who has said (it).’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will-make their nation a desolate place because they betrayed me. I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal to me. That is what I, Yahweh, the Lord, say.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:1:

• Kupsabiny: “God again spoke 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)