Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 39:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:12:

Kupsabiny: “It will take the people of Israel seven months to bury those people until they have swept away completely those bodies/corpses in that land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “‘Their burial by the Israelinhon will-take seven months so-that the land will-be-cleaned-up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “For seven months the people of Israel will be burying those corpses. It will be necessary to bury all of them, in order that the land will not be defiled/considered unacceptable to me because of any unburied corpses.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:13:

Kupsabiny: “Every person in the land of Israel will do the burying. But no one will forget that day when I was raised up/exalted. The one who has spoken is I the God of power.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “All the residents will-help bury. And that time will- never -be-forgotten by the Israelinhon, for that way I will-be-honored. I, the LORD, am- the -one-saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “All the people of Israel will do the work of burying them. The day when I win that victory they will honor me.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:14:

Kupsabiny: “And when those seven months are over, (some) chosen people for the work shall go around to look for corpses and bury (them) to wipe the land (clean).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “After the seven months, there are people to be-chosen to do just this deed/duty alone: they will-surround that place in-order to see if there are still corpses left, and they will-bury it, so-that the land will-be-cleaned-up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “After those seven months are ended, the Israeli people will appoint men to go throughout the land to bury corpses, in order that the land will not remain defiled.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:15:

Kupsabiny: “When (they) find bones of a person there in the open land, they shall place a sign there until the people who dig graves/holes can remove (them) so as to bury (them) in the ‘Valley of the soldiers of Gog.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “Whenever they see bones of a man, they will-mark it so-that the ones-who-bury will-know and they can-bury in the ‘So-Called-Valley/Plains of Many Men of Gog.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “When they go through the land, when one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker beside it. When the gravediggers see the markers, they will pick up the bones and bury them in the Valley of Gog’s Huge Army.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:16:

Kupsabiny: “There will also be a town there which shall be called ‘Soldiers’. So, they shall wipe the whole country to become clean.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “(There is a town near there that will-be-called ‘Many People.) In that way they can-clean the land.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “There will be a city there named Hamonah, which means ‘huge army’. And by doing this work of burying the corpses, they will cleanse the land/cause the land to be acceptable to me again.’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:17:

Kupsabiny: “Ezekiel, call birds and all other animals of the bush saying, ‘Come to hold a big feast which I have prepared for you (plur.) in the hills of Israel. Come and eat (the) flesh and drink (the) blood.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “The Lord GOD continued to say to me, ‘Man, gather all kinds of birds and fierce animals there in the mountains of Israel, for I will-be-having-a-feast for them of many offerings. They will-eat flesh and will-drink blood of the brave soldiers and leaders, as-if like they are only eating sheep, cows and goats which were-fattened from Bashan.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “Yahweh said to me, ‘You human, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: Summon every kind of bird and wild animal. Say to them, ‘Gather together from everywhere and come to the feast that Yahweh is preparing for you. It will be a great feast on the mountains in Israel. There you will eat men’s flesh and drink their blood.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:18:

Kupsabiny: “You shall eat the bodies of soldiers and drink the blood of rulers of countries like that of rams, sheep, goats or fattened bullocks that come from Bashan.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “The Lord GOD continued to say to me, ‘Man, gather all kinds of birds and fierce animals there in the mountains of Israel, for I will-be-having-a-feast for them of many offerings. They will-eat flesh and will-drink blood of the brave soldiers and leaders, as-if like they are only eating sheep, cows and goats which were-fattened from Bashan.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “You will eat the flesh of strong soldiers and drink the blood of kings as if they were fat animals—rams and lambs, goats and bulls—from the Bashan region.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 39:19:

Kupsabiny: “When you eat these corpses as a sacrifice that I have prepared for you, you shall eat the fat parts until you are constipated and you shall drink their blood until it splits you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “In this feast which I have-prepared for them, they will-sufficiently eat and drink until they will-be- very -full and drunk. They will-sufficiently eat horses, horse riders, and brave soldiers. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “At that feast that Yahweh is preparing for you, you will eat fat until your stomachs are full, and you will drink blood until it is as though you are drunk.” (Source: Translation for Translators)