Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:6:
- Kupsabiny: “Birds built their houses in its branches and animals gave birth at the foot of this tree and it was a shade for many communities.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “All kinds of birds nested in its branches, and all kinds of wild animals gave-birth under its branches. All famous nations have-shaded in it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Birds built their nests in the branches,
and wild animals gave birth to their babies under those branches.
And it was as though people of all the great nations lived in the shade of that tree.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:7:
- Kupsabiny: “How beautiful was indeed this tree! It was tall and had great branches because its roots had gone deep to reach much water.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This tree is very beautiful and the branches are longer, for its roots spread-out deep and water is abundant.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “It was majestic and beautiful;
its branches spread out widely
because the roots of the tree grew down into the ground where there was a plentiful supply of water.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:8:
- Kupsabiny: “The cedars in the field/garden of God were not able to compare with this one nor was its branches like those of the cypress/fir tree or like (those) of a tree called plane tree/coomnyaanteet. There was no single tree among those in the garden/field of God that could be compared to it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Even the cedar trees in the garden of God can- not -be-compared to the beauty of this tree. Even the abeto/fir trees and plane tress can- not -compare to the beauty of its branches. No tree ever in the garden of God can-be-equaled/[lit. level] to the beauty of this tree.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The cedar trees in my garden in Eden were not as great as that tree,
and the branches of the pine/cypress trees were not as long and thick as the branches of that cedar tree.
And the branches of the plane trees were not as long and thick, either.
No tree in my garden was as beautiful as that cedar tree.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:9:
- Kupsabiny: “I made that tree so beautiful having many branches. Every other tree in the garden of God in Eden were adoring it.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I made this tree beautiful with thick branches. Therefore all the trees in the garden of God were-jealous of it.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Because I caused that tree to become very beautiful
with its magnificent green branches,
all the leaders of other countries represented by those other trees in Eden envied the country represented by that tree.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:10:
- Kupsabiny: “So/Therefore, the God of power is saying: Since this tree raised itself up beyond all other trees in the forest and again/also since it boasted of that height/tallness,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore now, the Lord GOD said, ‘Because this tree exalted itself and towered-over the other thick trees, and because it boasted,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘That tree, which represents Assyria, grew very tall, and its top was higher than the other trees, and it became very proud because of being very tall.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:11:
- Kupsabiny: “I handed it over to the power of the king of other communities. I did like that so that it would meet with the matters that it needed for its sin/evilness. I turned my back on it” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-hand- it -over to the most-powerful nation who will-be- the -one-to-punish it in accordance to its wickedness. Yes, I will-reject it;” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Therefore, I enabled another mighty nation to conquer it and to destroy it as it deserved to be destroyed. I have already discarded it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:12:
- Kupsabiny: “and then foreign communities cut it down and it fell and (they) left it lying there. Its branches broke to pieces on the hillside and all deep valleys. All the communities left its shade and went away.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “it will-be-cut-off by the ones-from-other place who are most-violent of the all the nations, and then [it] will-be-abandoned. Its broken branches will-scatter in the mountains, valleys, and in the channel/passageway of water. Those nations who shaded under it will-leave from it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “A foreign army, one that has caused people of other nations to be terrified, cut it down and left it. Its branches fell on the mountains and in the valleys. Some of its branches lay broken in all the ravines in the land. All the people of other nations came out from being under its shade and left it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:13:
- Kupsabiny: “Vultures perched on its branches where it had fallen and animals roamed around that place.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “All kind of birds will-perch under its fallen trunk, and the wild animals will-lay-down in its branches.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Birds settled/went to live on the fallen tree, and wild animals lived among its branches.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
