26A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 36:26:
Kupsabiny: “I will make you get/receive good thoughts. I will change your heads that have become dry/stubborn for you to become people who obey.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
Hiligaynon: “I will-give you a new heart and new spirit. Your hard heart will-become now a faithful heart.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
English: “I will give you a completely new way of thinking. I will enable you to stop being stubborn , and I will enable you to obey me from your inner beings.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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Like a number of other East Asian languages, Japanese uses a complex system of honorifics, i.e. a system where a number of different levels of politeness are expressed in language via words, word forms or grammatical constructs. These can range from addressing someone or referring to someone with contempt (very informal) to expressing the highest level of reference (as used in addressing or referring to God) or any number of levels in-between.
One way Japanese shows different degree of politeness is through the choice of a first person singular and plural pronoun (“I” and “we” and its various forms) as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. The most commonly used watashi/watakushi (私) is typically used when the speaker is humble and asking for help. In these verses, where God / Jesus is referring to himself, watashi is also used but instead of the kanji writing system (私) the syllabary hiragana (わたし) is used to distinguish God from others.
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Like a number of other East Asian languages, Japanese uses a complex system of honorifics, i.e. a system where a number of different levels of politeness are expressed in language via words, word forms or grammatical constructs. These can range from addressing someone or referring to someone with contempt (very informal) to expressing the highest level of reference (as used in addressing or referring to God) or any number of levels in-between.
One way Japanese shows different degree of politeness is through the choice of a formal plural suffix to the second person pronoun (“you” and its various forms) as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. In these verses, anata-gata (あなたがた) is used, combining the second person pronoun anata and the plural suffix -gata to create a formal plural pronoun (“you” [plural] in English).
Verses 26-27 describe how God will give the Israelites new attitudes and a new character.
A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you: See 11.19 for this figurative language. There is no real difference here between the verbs give and put, and they both can be rendered “insert.”
And I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh: See 11.19 for this figurative language.
Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .
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