complete verse (Isaiah 38:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 38:12:

  • Kupsabiny: β€œMy life has been uprooted
    to end there.
    I have folded my life like
    the tent/shelter of a shepherd.
    I am like a granary that has been plaited
    and is abandoned before it is finished.
    I was thinking that you might destroy me,
    take me out from the light and put me in darkness.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: β€œLike a shepherd’s tent thrown down,
    my life has been taken from me.
    My life had been rolled up like from cloth from one who weaves [on a] loom.
    and he has cut me from the loom.
    All day and all night you brought my life to an end.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: β€œMy life has almost been lost like a tent of the one-who-watches-over the sheep which has-been-blown-away. I thought my life will- now -be-cut-off like a cloth that has-been-cut-off from the loom. From morning to evening, I waited that you (sing.) are now to end-up my life.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: β€œIt is as if my life has been taken away
    like a tent whose pegs have been pulled up by a shepherd and taken away.
    My time to live has been cut short,
    like a piece of cloth that a weaver cuts and rolls up after he has finished weaving a cloth.’
    Suddenly, it seemed that my life was ending.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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