Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 31:14:
- Kupsabiny: “So no other tree that grows at the side of a river should boast and raise itself up beyond the top of all the other trees in the forest. Any tree that is by a river should not become so tall because it will be judged to go to where people who plunge down to the world of the dead are going.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore there should-be no tree that will-grow-tall still and will-tower-over other thick trees, even it is still abundant in water. For all the trees will-die like a man, and will-go to the depth of the ground.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “The result of what I have done is that no other trees, even if they have plenty of water, will ever grow very high and become proud, and lift their tops above the branches of other trees. I do not want any other tree to grow high like that cedar tree did; trees will all certainly die and decay in the ground, like people die and go down to their graves.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
