Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:23)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:23:

Kupsabiny: “I shall send sickness to your people and (they) will kill people until the blood flows in the streets. Your people will be killed/speared from all sides. That is when you shall know that I am the God of power.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “I will-send you a plague, and because of this the blood will-flow there in your streets. You will-be-attacked around, very many of your residents will-die. Then they will-know that I am the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “I will send a plague upon you,
and I will send enemies to come and kill you in your streets.
They will attack you from every direction,
and your people will be slaughtered inside the walls of your city.
Then everyone will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:24:

Kupsabiny: “The people of Israel shall not forever live with neighbors who are rude and they shall not be made to suffer again. Then people will know that I am the God of power.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “‘Then the people of Israel will- no-longer have neighbor nations who -mock them, who will-hurt them as-if sharp thorns. Then they will-know that I am the Lord GOD.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “No longer will those who live near you people of Israel hurt you like painful briers and sharp thorns hurt people. And then the Israeli people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:25:

Kupsabiny: “I shall return the people of Israel from those countries I scattered them to, and then those countries shall know from this that I am holy. These Israelites shall live in peace in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “The Lord GOD still said, ‘I will- now -gather the people of Israel from the nations where they scattered. In this way that I will-do for them, I can-show my holiness to the nations. Then the Israelinhon will- now -live in their own land, the land I gave to my servant Jacob.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “And this is also what Yahweh the Lord says: ‘Some day the people of Israel will live in their own land again, the land that I gave to Jacob, who also served me. I will gather them from distant countries where I have scattered them. And I will reveal to the nations that I am holy among my people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:26:

Kupsabiny: “They shall build their houses and plant their vines. They shall have peace because I have destroyed their neighbors who were mocking them. Then they shall know that I am the God of power.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “They will-stay there with no disaster. They will-build-up houses and will-plant grapes. No one will-trouble them anymore if I will- now -punish all their neighbor nations who mock them. Then they will-know that I am the LORD.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “My people will live safely in Israel; they will build houses and plant vineyards. And when I punish the nearby nations that despised them, they will know that it is I, Yahweh their God, who has done it.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:1:

Kupsabiny: “On the twelfth day of the tenth month the tenth year while we were foreigners, God said to me,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “On the twelfth day of the tenth month, in the tenth year of our (excl.) captivity, the LORD said to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “Almost ten yearsafter we had been taken to Babylonia, on the twelfth day of the tenth monthof that year, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:2:

Kupsabiny: “‘Ezekiel, turn towards Pharao, the king of Egypt, and predict to him and all the people of Egypt bad words/news.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “‘Man, you face Egipto, and preach against Faraon the king of Egipto, and to her entire people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “‘You human, turn toward Egypt and proclaim the terrible things that will happen to the king of Egypt and all his people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:3:

Kupsabiny: “Tell him, ‘The God of power is saying: I detest you, king of Egypt, animal of the water. You are saying: ‘This river of Nile is mine and I created it myself.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Tell her that I, the Lord GOD, says: I am against you, Faraon king of Egipto. You are like a big crocodile that wades in your river. You say that yours is the River Nile, and you made it for yourself.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “Give the king this message from me, Yahweh the Lord:
‘You king of Egypt, I am your enemy;
you are like a great monster/crocodile that lies in the streamsalong the Nile River.
You say, ‘The Nile River is mine;
I made it for myself.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:4:

Kupsabiny: “Listen, I will place hooks in your cheeks while fish attack/bite all your scales. I will pull you up of that river with all those fish.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “But I will-put-a-hook with fishhooks your jaw, and drag you up[-to-the-dry-land] in your river. And while you are-being-dragged-up-[to-the-dry-land], there are fish that stick to your seemed-like-scales skin.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “But it will be as though I will put hooks in your jaws
and drag you out from the river onto the land,
with fish sticking to your scales.” (Source: Translation for Translators)