Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “Oholah continued with her prostitution even though she was mine. She admired and joined with soldiers of Assyria.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Even-though Oholah was my wife already, she still continued to sell her body, and she really chased-after her lovers who come-from-Asiria which is near her.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Oholah acted like a prostitute while she was still my wife. She desired to have sex with those she loved—soldiers from Assyria.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those people were dressed in purple clothes including the leaders and commanders of soldiers. Those young men were beautiful and they rode on horses.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They were handsome and young men. They were captains and commanders who were-in-uniforms in blue and horse-riders.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Some of them were army officers and commanders. They wore beautiful blue uniforms. They were all handsome young men. Some of them rode horses.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “That woman gave herself to all those leaders of Assyria. Her greed made here defile herself while worshipping the gods of Assyria.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Ohola had-sex with all the officials of Asiria, and she defiled herself by worshipping their little-gods.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “She acted like a prostitute toward all the important Assyrian officials, and became unacceptable to me by worshiping all the idols of the men she wanted to have sex with.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “She continued to wander around in her prostitution like she had been doing in Egypt.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “She never stopped selling her body since she was still there in Egipto. When she was still young she had-sex/practice prostitution already, and the men were-satisfied/were- lavished with her body.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When she was a young woman in Egypt, she started being a prostitute, and young men caressed her breasts and had sex with her; and when she became older, she did not quit acting like a prostitute.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “So, I handed her over to those her friends in Assyria whom she so strongly desired.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Therefore I handed- her -over to the hand of her lovers who came-from-Asiria whom she really chased.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So I allowed the Assyrian soldiers, whom she wanted to have sex with, to capture her.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those people removed the clothes from that woman to leave her naked. (They) caught/took her sons and daughters and then killed the woman with a sword. Women talked about that woman everywhere.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They took-off- her -clothes, killed by sword, and took-captive her children. What happened to her as-punishment is what the women were-talking-about.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “They stripped all her clothes off her. They took away her sons and daughters. And then they killed her with a sword. Other women started talking about what had happened to her, about how she had been punished.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “Her sister who was called Oholibah saw these things but her bodily desire pushed her, too, even further than the burning head/desire of Oholah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Even-though Oholiba still saw what happened to her sibling, she still continued to sell her body, and she became more bad than her female sibling/(sister).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Heryounger sister Oholibah saw those thingsthat happened to Oholah, but she was a prostitute, and she desired to have sex with men more than herolder sister had desired.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 23:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 23:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “Oholibah desired the young men of Assyria including the rulers, leaders of soldiers, the disciplined soldiers, those who rode on horses and all the beautiful young men.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “She also chased the ones from-Asiria who were handsome and young men. They were captains and commanders with uniforms and horse-riders.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Oholibah also wanted to have sex with the Assyrian soldiers. Some of them were army officers and commanders. They all wore beautiful blue uniforms. They were all handsome young men. Some of them rode horses.” (Source: Translation for Translators)