Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:13:
- Kupsabiny: “But the God of power is saying: When forty years have passed, I shall return these Egyptians (home).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But the Lord GOD also said, ‘After 40 years, I will-gather the Egiptohanon from the nations where they scattered.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, also say: ‘At the end of 40 years, I will enable the people of Egypt to return home again from the nations to which they were scattered.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:14:
- Kupsabiny: “I shall give them to live in the South of Egypt, their ancestral land and their kingdom/rulership shall become weak.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-return them to Patros in the south of Egipto, the land where they came-from. But they now will-be a low kingdom –” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I will bring back the people of Egypt who had been captured, and I will enable them to live again in the Pathros area in the south, where they lived previously. But Egypt will be a very unimportant kingdom.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:15:
- Kupsabiny: “It shall be at the very bottom among all countries and never recover. I shall make them suffer so that they will never rule other countries.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “the-lowliest of all the kingdoms. And they will- never again -be-above the other nations. I will-make them a very weak kingdom so-that they no-longer can-reign- again -over the other nations.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “It will be the least important of all the nations; it will never again be greater than the nearby countries. I will cause Egypt to be very weak, with the result that it will never again rule over other nations.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:16:
- Kupsabiny: “Never again shall the people of Israel look to the country of Egypt for help. Then the Israelites shall know/think that it is bad for them to trust/rely on Egypt to help them. Then the Israelites will know/understand that I am the God of power.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The people of Israel will- never again -trust Egipto. What-had-been-the-end-result of Egipto will-remind Israel of their sin, which was the asking for help from Egipto. Then the Israelinhon will-know that I am the Lord GOD.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “When that happens, the leaders of Israel will no longer be tempted to ask Egypt to help them. Egypt will be punished, and that will cause the Israeli people to not forget that they previously sinned by trusting that Egypt could help them. And the people of Israel will know that I, Yahweh the Lord, 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 29:17:
- Kupsabiny: “When it was the first day of the first month in the twenty-seventh year of us being foreigners in another country, God said to me,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “On the first day of the first month, on the 27th year of our captivity, the LORD said to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Almost twenty-seven years after we had been taken to Babylonia, on the first day of the new year, Yahweh gave me this message:” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:18:
- Kupsabiny: “‘Ezekiel, king Nebuchadnezzar has attacked Tyre. His soldiers have carried heavy things until their heads became bald and their shoulders are bruised/scraped. But that king and his soldiers exercised their strength in vain and did not get anything when they fought against Tyre.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Man, the soldiers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babilonia fought so hard against the soldiers of Tyre until they became-bald and their shoulders were-blistered. But Nebuchadnezzar and his soldiers never plundered/had-taken-by-force/captured from the ones-from-Tyre.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “‘You human, the army of king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon fought very hard against Tyre, with the result that their heads were rubbed bare and their shoulders became raw/full of blisters. But Nebuchadnezzar and his army did not get any valuable things from Tyre to reward them for their hard work to destroy Tyre.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:19:
- Kupsabiny: “So, The God of power is saying: I am going to hand over the land of Egypt to king Nebuchadnezzar. He shall plunder its riches so as to pay his soldiers money from that.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore I, the Lord GOD, say that I will-hand-over Egipto to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babilonia. He will-take-away-by-force all the wealth of Egipto as payment for his soldiers.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘I will enable King Nebuchadnezzar’s army to conquer Egypt. They will carry away from there all the valuable things, in order that the king can give them to his soldiers.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 29:20:
- Kupsabiny: “I shall give that king the land of Egypt because his soldiers did my work instead of me. It is I the God of power who is speaking.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-hand-over to him Egipto as my prize for his labors, because he and his soldiers did that for me. I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I will enable them to conquer Egypt as a reward for what they did to Tyre, because I, Yahweh say that it was as though his army was working for me, doing what I wanted them to do, when they destroyed Tyre.” (Source: Translation for Translators)