complete verse (2 Samuel 1:21)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Samuel 1:21:

  • Kupsabiny: “These hills of Gilboa,
    you should not get any rain or dew
    and the soil should not produce any food,
    because it is there where the shields of men got spoiled,
    and the shield of Saul is not smeared with oil (no longer in use).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Oh Mountains of Gilboa,
    may no dew, water, or rain come to your place,
    and may your fields not grow grain either.
    for the shield of strong soldier has become impure,
    Saul’s shield has not been polished with oil.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “May-it-be no rain and dew on the mountains of Gilboa,
    and may-it-be no plants that will-grow in his/(its) fields in-order to-be-offered to God.
    For there the shield of the mighty king Saul was-defiled by the enemies.
    And no one now rubs oil to that shield so it will-shine.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I hope/desire that there will be no rain or dew on the mountains of the Gilboa area ,
    and that no grain will grow in the fields there,
    because there the shield of Saul, the mighty king, fell on the ground.
    No one rubbed olive oil on Saul’s shield;” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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