complete verse (Isaiah 9:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Isaiah 9:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “The heads of Israel are the leaders
    and those powerful men who were feared.
    And the tails are those prophets that
    tell people lies.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The elders and the honor people are the head,
    and the prophets who teach falsehoods [lit. matters that are not true] are the tail.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The head was the ones-who-rule and the honorable people, and the tail was the lying prophets.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But I, Yahweh, say that an axe certainly cannot boast about being stronger than the person who uses it,
    and a saw is not greater than the person who uses it.
    A rod cannot control the one who holds it ,
    and a wooden club cannot lift up a person.
    So the king of Assyria should not boast that he has done these things with his own wisdom and strength.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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