Ezekiel 27:4

Good News Translation

Your home is the sea. Your builders made you like a beautiful ship;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your realm was in the heart of the sea;your builders perfected your beauty.

Hebrew Names Version
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

King James Version
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

English Standard Version
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.

New American Standard Bible
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.

New Century Version
You were at home on the high seas. Your builders made your beauty perfect.

Amplified Bible
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.

World English Bible
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thy borders are in the middes of the sea, and thy builders haue made thee of perfit beauty.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your borders are in the heart of the seas;Your builders have perfected your beauty.

Berean Standard Bible
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

Contemporary English Version
and your control of the sea. You are a ship built to perfection.

Complete Jewish Bible
Your borders are in the heart of the sea, your builders perfected your beauty.

Darby Translation
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Mediterranean Sea is the border around your city. Your builders made you perfectly beautiful, like the ships that sail from you.

George Lamsa Translation
Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

Lexham English Bible
In the heart of the seas are your boundaries; your builders perfected your beauty.

Literal Translation
In the heart of the seas are your borders, your builders have perfected your beauty.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
thy borders are in the myddest of the see, and thy buylders haue made the maruelous goodly.

American Standard Version
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Bible in Basic English
Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

King James Version (1611)
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders haue perfected thy beautie.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy borders are in the mids of the seas, thy buylders haue made perfite thy beautie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.

English Revised Version
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y am set in the herte of the see. Thei that ben in thi coostis that bildiden thee, filliden thi fairnesse;

Update Bible Version
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

New English Translation
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

New King James Version
Your borders are in the midst of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty.

New Living Translation
You extended your boundaries into the sea. Your builders made your beauty perfect.

New Life Bible
Your home is on the sea. Your builders have made you perfect in beauty.

New Revised Standard
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the heart of the seas, were thy bounds, - Thy builders perfected thy beauty:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:

Revised Standard Version
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.

Young's Literal Translation
In the heart of the seas [are] thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord said to me, ² "Mortal man, sing a funeral song for Tyre, ³ that city which stands at the edge of the sea and does business with the people living on every seacoast. Tell her what the Sovereign Lord is saying: "Tyre, you boasted of your perfect beauty. ⁴ Your home is the sea. Your builders made you like a beautiful ship; ⁵ They used fir trees from Mount Hermon for timber And a cedar from Lebanon for your mast. ⁶ They took oak trees from Bashan to make oars; They made your deck out of pine from Cyprus And inlaid it with ivory. ⁷ Your sails were made of linen, Embroidered linen from Egypt, Easily recognized from afar. Your awnings were made of finest cloth, Of purple from the island of Cyprus. ⁸ Your oarsmen were from the cities of Sidon and Arvad. Your own skillful men were the sailors. ⁹ The ship's carpenters Were well-trained men from Byblos. Sailors from every seagoing ship Did business in your shops. ¹⁰ "Soldiers from Persia, Lydia, and Libya served in your army. They hung their shields and their helmets in your barracks. They are the men who won glory for you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

midst: Heb. heart, Ezekiel 26:5

Reciprocal: Isaiah 23:2 - the isle Ezekiel 27:3 - O thou Ezekiel 27:11 - they have Ezekiel 27:25 - glorious Ezekiel 28:2 - in the midst Ezekiel 28:12 - Thou sealest Ezekiel 28:15 - perfect Ezekiel 32:19 - dost

Cross-References

Genesis 14:19
blessed him, and said, "May the Most High God, who made heaven and earth, bless Abram!

Genesis 24:60
And they gave Rebecca their blessing in these words: "May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants conquer the cities of their enemies!"

Genesis 27:1
Isaac was now old and had become blind. He sent for his older son Esau and said to him, "Son!" "Yes," he answered.

Genesis 27:7
‘Bring me an animal and cook it for me. After I have eaten it, I will give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.'

Genesis 27:15
Then she took Esau's best clothes, which she kept in the house, and put them on Jacob.

Genesis 27:20
Isaac said, "How did you find it so quickly, son?" Jacob answered, "The Lord your God helped me find it."

Genesis 27:22
Jacob moved closer to his father, who felt him and said, "Your voice sounds like Jacob's voice, but your arms feel like Esau's arms."

Genesis 27:23
He did not recognize Jacob, because his arms were hairy like Esau's. He was about to give him his blessing,

Genesis 27:25
Isaac said, "Bring me some of the meat. After I eat it, I will give you my blessing." Jacob brought it to him, and he also brought him some wine to drink.

Genesis 27:27
As he came up to kiss him, Isaac smelled his clothes—so he gave him his blessing. He said, "The pleasant smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, Fixed by the Lord himself, and which could never be removed. Tyre stood about half a mile from the continent, surrounded with the waters of the sea, till it was made a peninsula by Alexander:

thy builders have perfected thy beauty. The Sidonians were the first builders of the city, as Justin q says; who began and carried on the building of it to the utmost of their knowledge and skill; and which was afterwards perfected by other builders, who made it the most beautiful city in all those parts; unless this is to be understood of her shipbuilders, who brought the art of building ships in her to such a perfection, as made her famous throughout the world; since they are immediately spoken of without any other antecedent.

q Ex Trago, l. 18. c. 3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 27:4. Thy builders have perfected thy beauty. — Under the allegory of a beautiful ship, the prophet, here and in the following verses, paints the glory of this ancient city. Horace describes the commonwealth of Rome by the same allegory, and is as minute in his description, Carm. lib. i. Od. xiv: -

O navis, referent in mare te novi

Fluctus? O quid agis? Fortiter occupa

Portum. Nonne video, ut

Nudum remigio latus,

Et malus celeri saucius Africo,

Antennaeque gemant? ac sine funibus

Vix durare carinae

Possint imperiosius

AEquor! non tibi sunt integra lintea;

Non Di, quos iterum pressa votes malo:

Quamvis Pontica pinus,

Sylvae filia nobilis,

Jactes et genus, et nomen inutile

Nil pictis timidus navita puppibus

Fidit. Tu, nisi, ventis

Debes ludibrium, cave.

Unhappy vessel, shall the waves again

Tumultuous bear thee to the faithless main?

What, would thy madness thus with storms to sport?

Cast firm your anchor in the friendly port.

Behold thy naked decks, the wounded mast,

And sail-yards groan beneath the southern blast.

Nor, without ropes, thy keel can longer brave

The rushing fury of the imperious wave:

Torn are thy sails; thy guardian gods are lost,

Whom you might call, in future tempests tost.

What, though majestic in your pride you stood,

A noble daughter of the Pontic wood,

You now may vainly boast an empty name,

Of birth conspicuous in the rolls of fame.

The mariner, when storms around him rise,

No longer on a painted stern relies.

Ah! yet take heed, lest these new tempests sweep,

In sportive rage, thy glories to the deep.

FRANCIS.

I give this as a striking parallel to many passages in this chapter.