Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:11:

• Kupsabiny: “You will decide to raid people who are weak/helpless who do not have a wall that protects (them) or gates that are closed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You will-say: I will-attack Israel whose towns have no stone-wall, gate/entrance, and bar, and its residents live peacefully and fear no disaster.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You will say to yourself, ‘My army will invade a country where the villages do not have walls around them. We will attack people who are peaceful and do not suspect/think that they will be attacked. Their towns and villages do not have walls with gates and bars.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:12:

• Kupsabiny: “You (plur.) will plunder the people who live in those cities that are demolished. These people are the ones who were brought back from where they had been scattered to and became wealthy having animals and other things and live in a beautiful land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “I will-plunder/[lit. take-by-force] the properties of those towns who were-desolate/lonely before, which now are full already with people who have-returned from the nations. They have many animals and properties, and they consider their nation as the most-important nation on the earth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So it will be easy for us to attack the people who are living again in those towns that were previously destroyed. They are people who have been gathered from many countries where they had lived for many years, people who now live safely in their land with all their livestock and other possessions. They are living in the country that is in the middle of the most important countries (OR, that they think is the most important country) in the world. Our soldiers will take away all their valuable possessions.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:13:

• Kupsabiny: “The people of Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish will ask you (sing.), ‘Why will you (sing.) raid Israel? Do you want to plunder silver, gold, animals and all other things and carry them away?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘The people Sheba and Dedan will-say to you, and the businessmen in the towns of Tarshish, ‘Have you now gathered your many soldiers in-order to take the silver, gold, animals, and properties of the Israelinhon?’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Then people of Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and nearby villages will come and say to you, ‘Are you gathering all your soldiers in order to attack Israel and take away all their silver and gold? Do you plan to take away their livestock and all their other valuable possessions ?’’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:14:

• Kupsabiny: “So, Ezekiel, tell Gog, ‘The God of power is saying: When my people are peaceful” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘Therefore, man, tell Gog that I, the Lord GOD, says: At the times that my people who are Israelinhon will- now -live peacefully, you will-know it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “Therefore, you human, prophesy about Gog and say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says: At that time, when my people of Israel are living safely, you will certainly think about that.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:15:

• Kupsabiny: “you (sing.) will start a raid from up North being together with the soldiers of many communities and (who are) fierce/skilled who come on horses.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then you will-attack them from a far place in the north, together-with your many and mighty soldiers who ride on the horse.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So you will come from your place far north of Israel, with the armies of many other nations, all riding horses, a huge army.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:16:

• Kupsabiny: “You (plur.) will swarm around my people of Israel until you darken (them) like a swarm of grasshoppers that have closed off the land. I will cause you, oh, Gog, to raid my land so that the other communities can then know that I am righteous.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “You will-attack my people who are Israelinhon like a cloud that will-engulf them. Yes, Gog, I will-have- you -attack my land in the future. Through what I am-going-to-do with you, I can-show my holiness to the nations. Then they will-know that I am the LORD.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “You will march toward my Israeli people, and your soldiers will cover the land like a huge cloud. Gog, I will bring your army to attack the country that belongs to me, but what I do for you will show the people of other nations that I am holy.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:17:

• Kupsabiny: “The God of power is saying: I told my people long ago beforehand through prophets that a person would come who would fight with them. You Gog are that person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The Lord GOD continued to say, ‘In the past time, I have-revealed, through the prophets of Israel who were my servants, that in the future days there will-be-ones- who-attack Israel. And you were [the one] what I meant before.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say to Gog: In past years, when I gave messages to my servants, the prophets in Israel, there were messages about you. At that time, they prophesied for many years that I would bring your armies to attack my people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:18:

• Kupsabiny: “What is going to happen on that day/time is that when you fight with the land of Israel my anger will rise up. I am the God of power who has spoken.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But at that time when you attack, Gog, Israel, I will-be-in-fury in anger. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “So this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say will happen: When your army attacks Israel, I will be very angry with you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)