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Literal Standard Version

Ezekiel 27:4

Your borders [are] in the heart of the seas, || 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.
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

1And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 2"And you, son of man, lift up a lamentation concerning Tyre, and you have said to Tyre: 3O dweller on the entrances of the sea, || Merchant of the peoples to many islands, Thus said Lord YHWH: O Tyre, you have said, || I [am] the perfection of beauty. 4Your borders [are] in the heart of the seas, || Your builders have perfected your beauty.5They have built of firs from Senir all your double-boarded ships for you, || They have taken of cedars from Lebanon to make a mast for you, 6They made your oars of oaks from Bashan, || They have made your bench of ivory, || A branch of Ashurim from islands of Chittim. 7Your sail has been of fine linen with embroidery from Egypt, || To be for your ensign, || Your covering has been of blue and purple from islands of Elishah. 8Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad have been rowers for you, || Your wise men, O Tyre, have been in you, || They [are] your pilots. 9The elderly of Gebal and its wise men have been in you, || Strengthening your breach; All ships of the sea and their mariners, || Have been in you, to trade your merchandise. 10Persia and Lud and Phut || Have been in your forces—your men of war. They hung up shield and helmet in you, || They have given out your honor.

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 blesses him and says, "Blessed [is] Abram to God Most High, possessing the heavens and earth;
Genesis 24:60
and they bless Rebekah, and say to her, "You [are] our sister; become thousands of myriads, and your seed possesses the gate of those hating it."
Genesis 27:1
And it comes to pass that Isaac [is] aged, and his eyes are too dim for seeing, and he calls [for] his older son Esau and says to him, "My son"; and he says to him, "Here I [am]."
Genesis 27:7
Bring game for me, and make tasteful things for me, and I eat, and bless you before YHWH before my death.
Genesis 27:15
and Rebekah takes the desirable garments of Esau her older son, which [are] with her in the house, and puts them on Jacob her younger son;
Genesis 27:20
And Isaac says to his son, "What [is] this you have hurried to find, my son?" And he says, "That which your God YHWH has caused to come before me."
Genesis 27:22
And Jacob comes near to his father Isaac, and he feels him, and says, "The voice [is] the voice of Jacob, and the hands hands of Esau."
Genesis 27:23
And he has not discerned him, for his hands have been hairy, as the hands of his brother Esau, and he blesses him,
Genesis 27:25
And he says, "Bring [it] near to me, and I eat of my son's game, so that my soul blesses you"; and he brings [it] near to him, and he eats; and he brings wine to him, and he drinks.
Genesis 27:27
and he comes near, and kisses him, and he smells the fragrance of his garments, and blesses him, and says, "See, the fragrance of my son [is] as the fragrance of a field which YHWH 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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