Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 36:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:29:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will save you from everything that is not clean. I will make food/crops to be plenty so that you will never again experience famine.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-clean you (plur.) from all your filthiness. I will-give you abundant grains, and you no-longer suffer in hunger.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will free you from all your disgraceful behavior. I will cause your grain to be plentiful, and I will not send a famine to you again.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 36:30)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:30:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will make trees produce much fruit and the crops in the field shall produce so that other communities do not mock/shame you for the matter of a famine.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-cause-to-bear- much -fruit the trees and will-cause-to-be-abundant your harvest, so-that you no-longer be-put-to-shame by the other nations because of hunger.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will cause your fruit trees to produce plenty of fruit and your ground to produce plenty of good crops, with the result that you will no longer be ridiculed by the people of other nations because of your not having enough food.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 36:31)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:31:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then you (plur.) will think of/remember every sin that you did and you will feel pain/bitterness over those sins.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then you will-remember your wicked ways and deeds, and you will-detest yourselves because of your sins and detestables deeds.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When that happens, you will think about your previous evil behavior and wicked deeds, and you will be very displeased with/hate yourselves for your sins and the detestable things that you did.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 36:32)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:32:

  • Kupsabiny: “Have you heard, oh, stomach of Israel, I want you to know that I am not doing all these things because of you. I want you to feel/get shame/fear over the matters that you are doing. It is I the God of power who has spoken.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But I want you to know, O people of Israel, that I do this not because of you (plur.). You should be very ashamed of your ways. I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I want you to know that it is not for your sake that I will do those things. You Israeli people ought to be ashamed of your behavior.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 36:33)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:33:

  • Kupsabiny: “On the day when I cleanse you from all your sins, I shall return you to live in your cities and the places that had become ruins shall be rebuilt.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The Lord GOD continued to say, ‘At the times that I will- now -clean you from all your sins, I will-have- you -live again in your towns, and you (plur.) will-build the ruined places.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: At the time that I forgive you for all the sins that you have committed, I will enable you to live in your towns again and to build houses where there are now only ruins.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 36:34)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:34:

  • Kupsabiny: “The fields that had been idle/sleeping/lying because of the land being desolate shall again be plowed/cultivated.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The land which was desolate/[lit. lonely] in-time-past, will- now -be-plowed, and all who can-see it” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “People who walk through your country will see that your land is again cultivated instead of being desolate/having nothing growing in it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 36:35)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:35:

  • Kupsabiny: “And when people pass by there they shall say, ‘These fields that were desolate are now like the garden of Eden, cities with walls are now built and lived in even though they had been destroyed to lie in ruins.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “will-say, ‘The land which had no value in-time-past, now has become like the garden of Eden. The towns in-time-past were-ruined and desolate/[lit. lonely], now have stone-walls already and now inhabited!” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “They will say, ‘This land that was ruined has become very fertile/productive like the garden of Eden! The cities that were piles of ruins, empty and destroyed, now have walls around them, and people live in those cities.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 36:36)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:36:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then the remainder/remnant of the communities that are your neighbors shall know that I God have brought back everything that was destroyed to the way it was before and the desolate fields have again been planted. The one who has spoken is God and I shall do like that.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then the nations around you who were-left can-know that I, the LORD, am- the -one-who built-up the ruins and caused-to-plant in the desolate/lonely land. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this, and I will- surely -do it.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When that happens, the people in the nations that are around you that still exist will know that it is I, Yahweh, who have enabled you to rebuild what was destroyed, and to again plant crops in the fields that had nothing growing in them. I, Yahweh, have said that it will happen, and I will cause it to happen.” (Source: Translation for Translators)