Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “You did not have any blemish from when you were born until when you came into sin.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You were blameless in your ways from your birth until later you did wicked-[thing].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You were completely good in all that you did,
    from the day that you were created/born,
    until you started to do wicked things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “That trade caused you to concentrate on heaping up wealth, until strife/uproar overwhelmed you, something that brought you to sin. So, I chased you from my mountain, I pursued you, oh you guarding cherub, to get up from those glittering stones.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Your many businesses became the reason for your being-cruel and sinning. Therefore I drove you from my holy mountain; I caused- you -to-leave from the shining stones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then you became busy trading things,
    and you started to act violently,
    and you sinned.
    So I caused you to be disgraced;
    and the angel who was guarding you forced you to leave my holy mountain,
    forced you to leave your place among those fiery stones.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “You boasted in the beauty you had destroying your wisdom. This matter made me throw you down so that kings can learn from this that I am fierce.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You became proud because of your beauty, and you used foolishly your wisdom so-that you will-become famous. That is why I threw you to the ground, and you became a-scene for the other kings.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You were extremely proud
    because you were very handsome.
    Because you loved beautiful things,
    you did things that wise people do not do.
    So I threw you to the ground,
    and allowed other kings who saw you to laugh at you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “Your sins and your business of stealing where one prays from caused you shame.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Because of your many sins and cheating in business, you defiled the places where- you -worship. Therefore before/[lit. in front of] everyone who look-at you, I burned your place and you were-burned until you became just ash on the ground.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “By committing many sins
    and by trading things dishonestly,
    you caused your places of worship to become unacceptable to me.
    So I caused a fire to burn down your city.
    Your city was burned completely;
    the people who were watching it saw
    that only ashes remained on the ground.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:19)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:19:

  • Kupsabiny: “All the countries who know you were simply astounded! You were destroyed completely never to recover.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “All the nations who know you were-afraid by your end-result. Your end was horrible, and you now are-vanished forever.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “All the people who knew what your city was like previously
    were appalled.
    Now your city has disappeared,
    and it will not exist any more.’ ’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “God said to me,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then Yahweh gave me another message. He said,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:21)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:21:

  • Kupsabiny: “‘Ezekiel, turn towards the city of Sidon and prophesy bad matters to (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Man, you face Sidon and preach against her.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘You human, turn toward Sidon city, and declare the terrible things that will happen to it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:22)

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

  • Kupsabiny: “Tell (it) that, ‘The God of power is saying: Sidon, I am not looking you in the eye (I hate you). I shall show you that I have great power. Then people shall know from this that I am God and I am holy.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Tell her that I, the Lord GOD, say: I am against you, Sidon. The people will-praise me if I punish you now, and they will-know that I am the LORD. In this way, I can-show you my holiness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Give the people of Sidon this message from me, Yahweh the Lord:
    ‘I am your enemy, you people of Sidon,
    and by what I do to you,
    I will reveal that I am very great/glorious.
    When I punish you and reveal that I am holy,
    everyone who is watching that will know that it is I, Yahweh, who have the power to do what I say that I will do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)