Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:42)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:42:

  • Kupsabiny: “That will make my anger subside so that my stomach shall not die again (be jealous) and I shall have peace.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then I will-recover/will-be-consoled my great anger with you, and I will no-longer be-angry with you.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then I will no longer be angry with you. I will stop being jealous because of your worshiping gods other than me only.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:43)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:43:

  • Kupsabiny: “You forgot how I protected you when you were still young. You made me angry on account of all those things you were doing. That is what made me to punish you taking revenge for all those things. Why do you continue with/in promiscuity all those bad things that you have done? It is I the God of power who is speaking.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘You have-forgotten how I take-good-care of you when you were still young. Instead, you provoked- me -to-anger by what you did, therefore I will- surely -punish you according to what you have-done. I the Lord God, is saying this. Is it not so that you made dirty/rude/lewd deeds in-addition to all your detestable deeds?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You have forgotten the wonderful things that I did for you in previous years. You have caused me to become extremely angry because of all the evil things that you have done. In addition to all the other detestable things that you did, you committed many sexual sins. So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I will punish you for doing those things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:44)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:44:

  • Kupsabiny: “People use this proverb about you Jerusalem: ‘Daughter is like mother.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘ ‘There are people who say this proverb to you: ‘If what is the mother is also the child.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “People who like to quote proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Daughtersbehave like their mothers behave.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:45)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:45:

  • Kupsabiny: “You are truly the daughter of your mother who left/abandoned her husband and her children. You are also like your sisters who left their husbands and their children. Your mother was the daughter/girl of the Hittites and your father an Amorite.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You are very like your mother who despised her husband and her children. And you also like your sisters who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amornon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You are like your mother; it was as though she detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who also despised their husbands and their children. It was as though your father belonged to the Amor people-group and your mother belonged to the Heth people-group.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:46)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:46:

  • Kupsabiny: “Samaria was your big sister who lived in the North from where you are and its villages. And your younger sister is Sodom together with here villages in the South.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Your older sister was Samaria who lives in the north with her daughters. Your younger sister was Sodoma, who live there in the south with her daughters.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “And it was as though your older sister was Samaria, and she and her daughters lived to the north of you, and it was as though your younger sister was Sodom, and she and her daughters lived to the south of you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:47)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:47:

  • Kupsabiny: “Were you really happy to follow their customs/habits that were evil? But in just a short time you became bad surpassing the sin of those people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You have-followed their ways/conducts and their detestable deeds. And in just a short time what you did is worse than them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You not only imitated all their detestable behavior, but you quickly became more sinful than they were.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:48)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:48:

  • Kupsabiny: “As I am the God of power, your sister Sodom and its villages did not do evil things like yours.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I, the Lord GOD who is alive, is-saying the truth that Sodom your sister and her daughters were not-able-to-do like what you and your daughters have-done.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I, Yahweh the Lord, solemnly declare that as surely as I am alive, the people who lived in Sodom and other nearby cities never did the detestable things that you people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah have done.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 16:49)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 16:49:

  • Kupsabiny: “The sin that Sodom did was to be proud and/with her sisters because they had many things to eat. They lived/stayed while enjoying life in peace. But they did not rescue/help the poor/orphans and the powerless.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The sin of Sodom your sister was pride. She and her daughters have abundant food and easy living, but they never helped-out the lowly and poor ones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “These are the sins ofthe people who lived in Sodom, who were like your sister : The people who lived there and in nearby cities were arrogant. In spite of having more food to eat than they needed, they refused to help the poor and needy people among them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)