Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 21:23:

• Kupsabiny: “It will surprise the people of Jerusalem because (they) thought that they had made a covenant with that king. But these things that are coming shall show their sins, and they shall be caught/taken.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The ones-from-Jerusalem can- not -believe that this will-happen to them because they have a covenant with Babilonia. But the king of Babilonia will-remind them of their sins, and then he will-take- them -captives.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “The peoplein Jerusalem who had promised to be loyal to the King of Babylonia will think that those rituals must be wrong. They will think that his army should not be attacking them. But he will remind them of the sins that they had committed, andhis army will capture them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)