Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 26:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 26:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “He shall take logs of wood which he can use to crash which can hammer your wall and he takes axes to demolish that things of guarding.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “He will-cause-to-break-down your stone-walls by large logs and cause-to-fall-down your towers by heavy-mallets.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The king will direct the soldiers who operate the rams/things to batter the walls, and who will use their iron bars to tear down the towers in the wall.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 26:10)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 26:10:

  • Kupsabiny: “When their horses go through the gate of the city where it is broken, the dust of/from those horses shall engulf you and their noise and that of the chariots shall shake the wall of the city..” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You will-be-covered by dusts which fly-in-the-air from the feet of his horses which are very many. Your stone-walls will-shake because of his rushing horses and chariots that come-inside the gates of your ruined city.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The king will have a huge number of horses, andthe stamping of their hooves will result in the city being covered with dust. It will be as though the walls will tremble because of the noise made by the horses, the supply wagons, and the chariots when they enter the city where the walls have been broken down.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 26:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 26:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those horses will trample all the roads of that city, kill your people and crush your amazing pillars.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “All your (plur.) streets will-be-trampled by his horses. He will-cause- your residents -to-be-killed by the sword, and your strong pillars will-fall-down.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The horses will trample all of the streetsof the city with their hooves. The soldiers will kill the people with their swords; and they will cause your strong pillars to collapse/fall to the ground.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 26:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 26:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those people shall become rich from your wealth and all your things. They shall tear down your walls and overturn your good houses and throw your stones, timber and all other things in the ocean.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They will-plunder your wealth and your things-for-selling. They will-destroy your stone-walls and your lovely/beautiful houses, and then they will-throw into the sea the stones, woods and all which was-left-behind from the ruins.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “They will take away all the people’s valuable possessions and steal the things that the merchants sell. They will tear down the walls of the houses and destroy their fine houses. Then they will throw into the sea the stones from the walls of those houses and the timber and the rubble.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 26:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 26:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall crush you so that your songs will end (and) the lyres become completely quiet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-cause-to-stop your singing and your playing of harps.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “No longer will you sing noisy songs, and people will not play their harps any more.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 26:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 26:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall make your city that water surrounds become a flat rock where fishermen dry their nets. Never shall this city be rebuilt. The one who has spoken is I the God of power.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will- just -make your place a wide rock/stone which is a drying-place for nets. Your city will- never -be-built again. This will- really -happen, for I, the Lord GOD, (am) the-(one) saying this.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The enemy soldiers will cause the city to become a bare rock and only a place where men spread their fishing nets. And the city will never be rebuilt. Those things will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have declaredthat they will happen.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 26:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 26:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “The God of power is saying to the city of Tyre: When you are destroyed, many people who live at the shore of the ocean shall be frightened when they hear the shouting of the people who are being killed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The Lord GOD still said to those-from-Tyre, ‘The ones-who-live near the sea will-shake in fear when they hear of your destruction and death, and the groaning of the ones-who-were-wounded among you.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, say about the people of Tyre: ‘When the wounded people in Tyre groan and many people are slaughtered and the city is destroyed, it will surely be as though the areas along the coast will tremble.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 26:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 26:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “The kings/rulers of the nearby countries shall leave behind their chairs of rulership and take off their clothes that were beautified and showing honor. They shall sit down while trembling over what has come to you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The leaders of the places who were near the sea will-step-down from their throne and will-take-off their kingly/royal clothes and their inner clothes which are beautiful. And they will-sit on the ground shaking in fear because of what you received/[what your outcome-became].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then all the kings in the cities along the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and their embroidered clothes. They will be terrified, and they will sit on the ground, trembling. They will be appalled because of what has happened to the city of Tyre.” (Source: Translation for Translators)