complete verse (Isaiah 22:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 22:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “Ask (him),
    ‘Who are also/even you in this place?
    Show the hole/grave
    where your forefathers/family are buried/kept.
    Who allowed you
    to dig out for yourself a cave in the hill?
    Who told you to
    dig a hole/grave in the place of the hillside?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “What are you doing here?
    And who gave you permission to build a tomb for yourself?
    You are building a tomb for yourself here in [this] high place
    and, having cut a big rock you are building a resting place for yourself.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Who really are you (sing.) to make-a-hole/to break-through in the cliff and make your (sing.) own grave along-with the noble-ones? Who gave- you (sing.) -permission to do this?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “’Who do you think you are?
    Who gave you the authority to build a beautiful tomb where you will be buried,
    chiseling it out of the rocky cliff high above this valley?” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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