Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:17:

• Kupsabiny: “All the other communities had also gone to the world of the dead those that were in its shadow and those that had come to its aid, joining with those that had fallen by the sword.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The nations who shade and ally with it will- also -go with it to the place of the dead[-ones] together there with those who had-died in battle.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The leaders of other countries represented by trees that grew in the shade of the huge tree, the allies of the great nation that the cedar tree represents, had also joined those who had been killed by the sword and gone down to where the dead people are.” (Source: Translation for Translators)