Translation Exercise for Beginners: Number 15
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So here is our sentence for Number 15:
"Donde no hay visión el pueblo perece"
Proverbios 29:18
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Translation
Where no vision exists, people die.
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Where there is no vision people die.
Without vision, a nation perishes.
"Donde no hay visión el pueblo perece"
Translation: "Where there is no vision, the town perishes" the meaning I believe is, that a town will not survive without a future [visionary] plan.
where there is no vison the people perish
Where there is no spiritual vision the people perish Proverbs
"Donde no hay visión el pueblo perece"
Proverbios 29:18
Where there is no vision the village dies.
If people have no vision, they will die.
Proverbs 29:18
I know, it's a really "Englishized" version.....it's actually very interesting that you picked this verse for the translation exercise, because in a missions conference that I went to this past week this was basically the main verse talked about.... 
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the community perishes.
"Where there is no vision the nations perish."
- "Donde no hay visión el pueblo perece."
Where there is no vision the village stops.
"Donde no hay visión el pueblo perece." Proverbios 29:18
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18
In America, we say it's being able to see the "Big Picture."
Where there is no vision the town dies
ie When there is no plan for the future communities stagnate and decay
Where there is no foresight the people decay.
There where is no sight the town perishes.
