Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “and I dressed you with soft clothes and expensive shoes. I dressed/tied you with a scarf made from soft material and gave you a long frock/coat that was soft.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then I clothed you with expensive linen clothes and embroidered silk, and slipped on leather sandals.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “It was as though I put a fine linen robe on you and gave you other expensive clothes. I put an embroidered dress on you and put leather sandals on your feet.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “I dressed you with arm rings and pearls of the neck” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I caused-to-be-put on you jewelries: bracelets and necklace.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “It was as though I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck. Those things all had nice jewels fastened to them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “and gave you a thorn of the nose, rings and a very beautiful hat.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I also caused-to-be-put on you rings for your nose, earrings, and crown.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I put a gold ring in your nose and fastened earrings to your ears and put a beautiful crown on your head.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “I decorated you with things of gold and silver. You dressed in woven clothes that were ornamented beautifully and were soft. Your food was made from finely ground flour, honey and olive oil. You were very beautiful and you became a daughter of a king!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Therefore I caused- you -to-become-beautiful with gold and silver. Your clothes were linen and embroidered silk, and your food was from a fine kind of flour, honey, and olive oil. You are very pretty, and as-if you are a queen.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So it was as though you wore gold and silver ornaments. You had clothes made from fine linen/white cloth and other expensive embroidered material/cloth. You ate bread made from fine flour, honey, and olive oil. You became very beautiful, like a queen.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “You became famous so that it was known in many other countries that you were very beautiful, because it was I who made you beautiful. It is I the God of power who is speaking.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You became famous among the nations because of your great beauty which I gave to you. I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You were very beautiful, with the result that people in other nations heard about you, because they knew that I, Yahweh the Lord, am the one who had caused you to become very beautiful.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “But you became proud of that beauty so that you became a prostitute. Every man who spoke to you came to your home.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘But you trusted in your beauty, and you used your fame to have immoral relationship. You caused-[yourself] -to-be-used by any man who passed, and they lavished on you.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But it was as though you realized that because people knew that you were very beautiful, you could earn a lot of money by becoming a prostitute. It was as though you had sex with every man who came along, and they all enjoyed your beauty.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:16)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “You took some of your clothes and used them to decorate where you pray to those idols and you revealed/bared yourself to any young man like a prostitute does. Things like that should never happen.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You used some of your clothes/garments to beautify the places-of-worship on the high places, where you do your immoral relationship. That should not happen.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “It was as though you took some of your clothes to make beautifully decorated shrines, and that is where you had sex with those men. Those things should certainly never occur!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “You took the arm rings that were made from gold and silver that I gave you and molded/shaped them to become an idol so that you could worship (them).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You also used the gold and silver jewelries which I gave you to make male little-gods/false-gods and you worshipped them. (It is) just the same that you committed-adultery-with-a-man!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You took the fine gold and silver jewelry that I gave you, and you made male idols for yourself, in order to have sex with them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)