Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 27:36)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 27:36:

  • Kupsabiny: “The traders are simply amazed
    on account of what has happened to you
    who shall never recover!’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The merchants of the nations are-hissing in surprise because of what-had-been- your -end-result. Your end is horrible, you will- now -vanish forever.’ ’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:1:

  • Kupsabiny: “God said to me,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to me,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then Yahweh gave me another message. He said:” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “‘Ezekiel, tell the king of Tyre, ‘The God of power is saying: You are bringing yourself up saying
    ‘I am like God,
    I am ruling the ocean
    in the midst of the seas.’
    But you are a person only even though you boast that you are like God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Man, tell the leader of Tyre that I, the Lord GOD, say: In your being-proud you say that you are a god who sits on the throne in the middle of the sea. But the truth-is, even-though you think that you-are wise like a god, you are not god but-rather just man.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘You human, give to the king of Tyre this message from me, Yahweh the Lord:
    ‘You have very proudly claimed, ‘I am a god!
    I sit on a throne of a god in a city on an island in the sea!’
    You boast that you are a god;
    but you are only a man, not a god.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “You take yourself to be wise more than Daniel and you think that you know everything.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You think that you-are wiser than Daniel, that there is no secret that you do not know.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You think that you are wiser than Daniel was,
    and you think that you can understand every secret.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “Your wisdom and experience have made you pile up for yourself gold and silver until you became rich.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “By your wisdom and knowledge you became-wealthy and were-able-to-gather gold and silver in your hiding-place of wealth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “By being wise and understanding a lot, you have become very rich;
    you have acquired much gold and silver for your treasuries.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “You uses the knowledge trade to get great wealth, and that wealth made you become a proud person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “By your ability also in making-business, your wealth increased more, and because of your wealth you became-proud.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Yes, it is true that by trading wisely, you have been enabled to become very rich,
    and because you are rich, you have become very proud.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “So, I the God of power is saying: Because you think that you are wise like God,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Therefore I, the Lord GOD, say that because you think that you are-wise like a god,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Therefore, this is what Yahweh the Lord says:
    ‘Because you think that you are as wise as a god,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “I am going to send very fierce enemies towards you. Those people shall destroy every beautiful thing you got from your knowledge.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-have- you -attacked by the ones-from-other-place, who are most-violent of all the nations. They will-destroy your beautiful properties which you possessed through your wisdom. And your honor will-vanish.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will now bring a foreign army to attack your country,
    an army that causes other nations to be terrified.
    They will pull out their swords to strike you,
    you who think that you have marvelous/great wisdom,
    and they will destroy all your beautiful things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)