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Green's Literal Translation

Ezekiel 27:4

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

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Phoenicia, Phenicia, or Phenice;   Ship;   Tyre or Tyrus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Phoenicia;   Ship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Perfect, Perfection;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Regeneration;   Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Phenicia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cyprus;   Ezekiel;   Poetry;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ship;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tyre;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Builders;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Heart;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crafts;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tyre;  

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.
Good News Translation
Your home is the sea. Your builders made you like a beautiful ship;
Lexham English Bible
In the heart of the seas are your boundaries; your builders 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 And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying, 2 And you, son of man, lift up a lament in Tyre. 3 And say to Tyre, Oh you who dwell at the entrances of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many coast lands, so says the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, you have said, I am perfect of beauty. 4 In the heart of the seas are your borders, your builders have perfected your beauty. 5 They have made for you all your planks of fir trees of Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. 6 They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They made your deck with ivory from the coasts of Kittim, daughter of Assyria. 7 Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, an ensign for you, violet and purple from the coasts, of Elishah was your covering. 8 The residents of Sidon and Arvad were rowers to you. Your wise ones, O Tyre, they were your sailors. 9 The elders of Gebal and her wise ones were with you, making strong your seams. All the ships of the sea and their seamen were with you, to exchange your merchandise. 10 Persia and Lud and Lydia were in your army, men of war to you; they hung the shield and the helmet in you. They gave your splendor.

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
And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth;
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, may you become myriads of thousands, and may your seed possess the gate of ones hating them.
Genesis 27:1
And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim for seeing, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Behold me.
Genesis 27:7
Bring game to me and make delicious things that I may eat, that I may bless you before Jehovah before my death.
Genesis 27:15
And Rebekah took the clothing of her elder son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house. And she dressed her younger son Jacob;
Genesis 27:20
And Isaac said to his son, How then have you quickly found it , my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God made it come to me.
Genesis 27:22
And Jacob came near to his father Isaac. And he felt him, and he said, The voice is the voice of Jacob and the hands are Esau's hands.
Genesis 27:23
And he did not know him, because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.
Genesis 27:25
And he said, Bring to me and let me eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he came near to him; and he took and he ate. And he came to him, and he drank wine.
Genesis 27:27
And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothes. And he blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah 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.


 
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