Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 37:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “So I spoke to those bones like that. While I was still predicting/prophesying I heard the bones rattling joining themselves together.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Therefore I obeyed what was-commanded to me. And while I spoke, I heard the rattling-noise, and the bones were-attached-to-each-other.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So I spoke to the bones what Yahweh commanded me to speak. As I was speaking, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bones joining to each other.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 37:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “Tendons, flesh and skin started to cover those bones slowly while I was watching but (they) had not (yet) gotten breath.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then I saw that they now had veins and flesh and were-wrapped with skin, but they still did not breathe.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “While I was looking, I saw tendons fastening to them and flesh covering them, and then skin covered the flesh, but they did not breathe.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 37:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then God said, ‘Ezekiel, speak/say to the breath/spirit, ‘The God of power is saying: Come (you sg) from all areas of the world and enter these people who have died so that they come alive.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to me, ‘Man, tell the wind that I, the Lord GOD, is-saying: ‘O wind, you (plur.) blow from the four directions to give breath to those dead bodies so-that they will-live.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then he said to me, ‘You human, prophesy to the wind. Say to the wind, ‘Wind , Yahweh says to you, blow from all four directions. Breathe into these people who have been killed, in order that they can become alive again!’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 37:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then I spoke to the breath like he had told me. The breath/spirit came and entered those things, then (they) became alive and got up to stand. Yes! They were many people!.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “And that was I said, according to what he commanded me. The dead bodies were-able-to-accept breath and they lived. They stood-up, and they were very many, seemed-like a battalion of soldiers.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So I said what he commanded me to say, and then breath entered them. They became alive and stood up, like a huge army.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 37:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “God said to me, ‘Ezekiel, all these bones is the house of Israel without number. They are saying, ‘Our bones have dried up and we have nothing more to hope for. We have been completely isolated/pushed aside.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD again said to me, ‘Man, those bones represent the entire people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are now dry, and we no-longer have hope; we are now destroyed.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then he said to me, ‘You human, these bones represent all the Israeli people. The people say, ‘It is as though our bones are dried up; there are no more good things that we can hope for/confidently expect to happen to us; our nation is destroyed/finished.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 37:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “So, tell (them), ‘The God of power is saying: My people of Israel, I am going to open up your graves and sweep/dig you up and then I will bring you back to the land of Israel.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Therefore tell them that I, the Lord GOD, say: O my people, I will-open your graves and I will-cause you to-resurrect, and be-brought-back to the land of Israel.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “So prophesy and say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says: My people, it will be as though I will open your graves and cause your corpses to become alive again. I will bring you back to Israel.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 37:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then you shall know my people that I am God when I have dug you up from those graves.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then you will-know, O my people, that I am the LORD, when I will- now -open your graves and I will-cause- you -to-resurrect.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then, what that happens, you my people will know that I, Yahweh the Lord, have the power to do what I say that I will do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 37:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall give you my Spirit so that you come alive and live in your land. Then you shall know that it is God who has spoken.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-give my Spirit to you (plur.) and you will-live, and I will-have- you -stay in your own land. Then you will-know that I am the LORD. If what I say, I obey/fulfill. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will put my Spirit in you, and it will be as though you will become alive again, and I will enable you to live in your own land again. Then you will know that it is I, Yahweh, who said that it would happen and who has caused it to happen. That is what I, Yahweh, declare.’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)