Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 38:17:

• Kupsabiny: “The God of power is saying: I told my people long ago beforehand through prophets that a person would come who would fight with them. You Gog are that person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The Lord GOD continued to say, ‘In the past time, I have-revealed, through the prophets of Israel who were my servants, that in the future days there will-be-ones- who-attack Israel. And you were [the one] what I meant before.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say to Gog: In past years, when I gave messages to my servants, the prophets in Israel, there were messages about you. At that time, they prophesied for many years that I would bring your armies to attack my people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)