Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “That trade caused you to concentrate on heaping up wealth, until strife/uproar overwhelmed you, something that brought you to sin. So, I chased you from my mountain, I pursued you, oh you guarding cherub, to get up from those glittering stones.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Your many businesses became the reason for your being-cruel and sinning. Therefore I drove you from my holy mountain; I caused- you -to-leave from the shining stones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Then you became busy trading things,
    and you started to act violently,
    and you sinned.
    So I caused you to be disgraced;
    and the angel who was guarding you forced you to leave my holy mountain,
    forced you to leave your place among those fiery stones.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “You boasted in the beauty you had destroying your wisdom. This matter made me throw you down so that kings can learn from this that I am fierce.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You became proud because of your beauty, and you used foolishly your wisdom so-that you will-become famous. That is why I threw you to the ground, and you became a-scene for the other kings.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You were extremely proud
    because you were very handsome.
    Because you loved beautiful things,
    you did things that wise people do not do.
    So I threw you to the ground,
    and allowed other kings who saw you to laugh at you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “Your sins and your business of stealing where one prays from caused you shame.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Because of your many sins and cheating in business, you defiled the places where- you -worship. Therefore before/[lit. in front of] everyone who look-at you, I burned your place and you were-burned until you became just ash on the ground.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “By committing many sins
    and by trading things dishonestly,
    you caused your places of worship to become unacceptable to me.
    So I caused a fire to burn down your city.
    Your city was burned completely;
    the people who were watching it saw
    that only ashes remained on the ground.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:19)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:19:

  • Kupsabiny: “All the countries who know you were simply astounded! You were destroyed completely never to recover.’ ’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “All the nations who know you were-afraid by your end-result. Your end was horrible, and you now are-vanished forever.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “All the people who knew what your city was like previously
    were appalled.
    Now your city has disappeared,
    and it will not exist any more.’ ’ ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:20:

  • 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 28:21)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:21:

  • Kupsabiny: “‘Ezekiel, turn towards the city of Sidon and prophesy bad matters to (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Man, you face Sidon and preach against her.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “‘You human, turn toward Sidon city, and declare the terrible things that will happen to it.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:22)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:22:

  • Kupsabiny: “Tell (it) that, ‘The God of power is saying: Sidon, I am not looking you in the eye (I hate you). I shall show you that I have great power. Then people shall know from this that I am God and I am holy.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Tell her that I, the Lord GOD, say: I am against you, Sidon. The people will-praise me if I punish you now, and they will-know that I am the LORD. In this way, I can-show you my holiness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Give the people of Sidon this message from me, Yahweh the Lord:
    ‘I am your enemy, you people of Sidon,
    and by what I do to you,
    I will reveal that I am very great/glorious.
    When I punish you and reveal that I am holy,
    everyone who is watching that will know that it is I, Yahweh, who have the power to do what I say that I will do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 28:23)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 28:23:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall send sickness to your people and (they) will kill people until the blood flows in the streets. Your people will be killed/speared from all sides. That is when you shall know that I am the God of power.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-send you a plague, and because of this the blood will-flow there in your streets. You will-be-attacked around, very many of your residents will-die. Then they will-know that I am the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I will send a plague upon you,
    and I will send enemies to come and kill you in your streets.
    They will attack you from every direction,
    and your people will be slaughtered inside the walls of your city.
    Then everyone will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)