Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 24:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 24:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “Put choice meat inside like the hind leg or front leg and fill it up with meat with bones.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Put-in it with some fine portion of meat — shoulders and legs. Mix also the bones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Put into the pot some pieces of meatfrom one of your best sheep:
    Put in the leg and shoulder, which are the best pieces.
    Then fill the rest of the pot with the best bones.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 24:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 24:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “You should use meat from sheep that are still young/tender, and put lots of firewood on the fire and leave the meat and bones to cook well.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “What you are going-to-use is only the best meat of the sheep. Fuel the kettle and boil the meat and the bones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Pile wood on the fire,
    and cook the bones and the meat in the boiling water.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 24:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 24:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “I the God of power is saying: The city of murderers is destroyed. It is like a pot that is dirty and it has never been cleaned/washed. The meat should be picked one by one without any questions.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For I, the Lord GOD, am-saying: Pity the city of Jerusalem whose residents are killers. It is like a rusted kettle that has- not been-cleaned. Therefore get one by one its contents and do not choose.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Do that because this is what Yahweh the Lord says:
    ‘Terrible things will happen toJerusalem;
    it is city that is full of murderers ,
    a city that is like a scorched pot
    whose black residue inside cannot be removed.
    Take the pieces of meat out of the pot,
    but do not choose which pieces to take out.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 24:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 24:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “The murderers who have murdered people in this city are not few resulting in the blood still being on the rocky flat place rather than being poured/shed where the soil is so that the soil would cover it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For her killing is open to all. The blood of the ones- he -killed he just left on the rocks to-be-seen by all. He never covered it with soil.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The blood of the people who were murdered in Jerusalem is still there;
    they were murdered on the bare rocks,
    not on the soil, where their blood could be covered.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 24:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 24:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “I left that blood there so that it would stir up my anger wanting to repay/take revenge.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I saw this blood and I left it be-seen by everyone. As-if it shouts to me that I will-take-revenge.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But I am the one who caused the blood of those who were murdered to be smeared on the bare rock,
    where their blood could not be covered;
    I did that in order thatI could see it and
    then be angry and get revenge.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 24:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 24:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “I the God of power am saying: How bad/evil this city is! I will also set fire to (the) firewood.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Therefore I, the Lord GOD, am-saying: Pity the city of Jerusalem whose residents are killer! I myself will-be- the -one-to-gather firewood in-order to burn them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord say:
    ‘Terrible things will happen to that city that is full of murderers !
    It will be as though I also will pile high the wood in the fire.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 24:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 24:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will heap up a lot of firewood and place it on the fire for it to burn strongly. The meat will be well cooked and I shall add things that spice it up. I shall burn the bones to be so warm that they separate.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Okay, still add more firewood, and then light-[it]. Boil the meat until [it-]will-be-dried-up and the bones will-be-burned.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So, heap on the wood
    and light the fire!
    Cook the meat well,
    and mix some spices with it;
    cook it until the bones are charred.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 24:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 24:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “And then I shall place the pot alone/empty on the fire to burn until it glows so the dirty places can melt and the pot can return to being clean.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then put/set-up the kettle that is now empty on the live-coals until it also will-become-coals. In this way, the kettle wish/hope would-be-cleaned and the rusts will-be-burned.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then set the empty pot on the coalsof the fire
    until the pot becomes very hot and the copper glows,
    with the result that the impurities and the rust will be burned up.” (Source: Translation for Translators)