Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 22:28)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 22:28:

Kupsabiny: “The prophets cover up these sins like when a wall is plastered with whitewash. They see revelations that are lies and predict things of lying. They pretend to speak for me who has power, but I have not spoken to them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Their prophets indeed cover their sins by not the true visions and prophecies. They say that-was what as-it-is-said by the Lord GOD even-though the LORD did- not -say.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “Their prophets, by falsely saying they have received visionsfrom God, and by giving false messages, try to cover up /say that it is all right to commit those sins. They say, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says,’ when I have said nothing to them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 22:29:

Kupsabiny: “Powerful people cheat people and rob them of their things. They suppress the weak and persecute the foreigners.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “The people practice-extortion and steal. They oppress the poor-ones, and the non Israelinhon who live with them. They do not give them justice.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “The Israeli people force others to give them money, and they rob people. They oppress poor people, and they mistreat foreigners among them by not treating them fairlyin the courts.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 22:30:

Kupsabiny: “I looked for a person who might rebuild the wall and who would be able to stand at the side/place of the wall where it has fallen down so as to support the land so that I would not destroy it. But I found no one.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “‘I have-looked for a man who can-defend the city and can-go-between me and the people so-that I will- not -destroy this city, but I found no one.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “I looked among them to find a man who would cause the people of the city to repent so that I would not need to get rid of them. But I did not find anyone.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 22:31:

Kupsabiny: “So, I will pour out on them my anger and destroy (them) for what they have done. Is it I God who has spoken.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Therefore I will-let- them -experience my severe anger. I will-destroy them because of what they did. I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “So because I am very angry with them, I will severely punish them for all the wicked things that they have done. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:1:

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:2:

Kupsabiny: “‘Ezekiel, there were at one time some two girls who were sisters from one stomach.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “‘Man, in-the-time-past there were two sisters.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “‘You human, listen to this parable about Jerusalem and Samaria. Once there were two women, daughters of the same mother.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:3:

Kupsabiny: “Young men from Egypt repeatedly touched their breasts while they were still small so that they became prostitutes in that country.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “When they were still young, they sell their bodies in Egipto. They just let- the men -be-satisfied with their bodies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “They lived in Egypt. And from the time that they were young women, they became prostitutes. In that land, men fondled their breasts and caressed their bosoms.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:4:

Kupsabiny: “The older one was called Oholah and the younger one Oholibah. (Oholah was/is Samaria and Oholibah was/is Jerusalem.) I married them both and they bore to me sons and daughters.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “The name of the older was Ohola, and the younger was Oholibah. I married them two and we had children. Oholoah was Samaria, and Oholibah was Jerusalem.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “The older sister was Oholah, and her younger sister was Oholibah. It was as though they became my wives. Later they gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah represents Samaria, and Oholibah represents Jerusalem.” (Source: Translation for Translators)