Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 37:4:
- Kupsabiny: “Then God said to me, ‘Predict to these bones saying, ‘You bones, hear the words that God is saying.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He said to me again, ‘Tell those dry bones that they will-listen to what I say.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Chichewa (interconfessional translation of 1999) (374-5a): “Then he told me, ‘Preach to these bones, [and] tell the dry bones to listen to the words of me, Chauta [see YHWH]. Say that what I the Lord Chauta am telling the bones is this: I will breathe breath into you …'” (Source: Ernst Wendland in The Bible Translator 2005, p. 76ff. )
- English: “Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones. Say to them, ‘You dry bones, listen to what Yahweh says.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
