Ezekiel 27:4

Myles Coverdale Bible

thy borders are in the myddest of the see, and thy buylders haue made the maruelous goodly.

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.

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 worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: ² O thou sonne off ma, make a lamentable coplaynte vpon Tyre, ³ & saye vnto Tyre, which is a porte off the see, yt occupieth with moch people: and many Iles: thus speaketh ye LORDE God: O Tyre thou hast sayde: what, I am a noble cite. ⁴ thy borders are in the myddest of the see, and thy buylders haue made the maruelous goodly. ⁵ All yi tables haue they made of Cipre trees of the mount Senir. Fro Libanus haue they take Cedre trees, to make the mastes: ⁶ & the Okes of Basan to make the rowers. Thy boordes haue they made of yuery, & of costly wod out of the Ile of Cethim. ⁷ Thy sale was of whyte small nedle worke out off the londe of Egipte, to hage vpo thy mast: & thy hanginges of yalow sylcke & purple, out of ye Iles of Elisa. ⁸ They of Sido & Arnad were thy maryners, & the wysest in Tyre were thy shypmasters. ⁹ The eldest and wysest at Gebal were they, that mended & stopped thy shippes. All shippes off the see with their shipme occupied their marchaundies in the. ¹⁰ The Perses, Lydians and Lybians were in thyne hoost, and helped the to fight: these hanged vp their shildes & helmettes with the, these set forth thy beuty.

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 sayde: Blessed be thou Abram vnto the most hye God possessor of heauen and earth.

Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: Thou art oure syster, growe in to many thousande tymes thousandes, and thy sede possesse the gates of his enemies.

Genesis 27:1
And it came to passe when Isaac was olde, his eyes waxed dymme of sight, and he called Esau his greater sonne, and sayde vnto him: My sonne. He answered him: Here am I.

Genesis 27:7
Brynge me venyson, and make me meate, that I maye eate, and blesse the before ye LORDE, yer I dye.

Genesis 27:15
and toke Esaus hir elder sonnes costly rayment (which she had with her in ye house) and put them vpon Iacob hir yonger sonne.

Genesis 27:20
But Isaac sayde vnto his sonne? My sonne, how hast thou founde it so soone? He answered: The LORDE yi God brought it to my hande.

Genesis 27:22
So Iacob wete vnto Isaac his father. And whan he had felt him, he sayde: The voyce is Iacobs voyce, but the handes are the handes of Esau.

Genesis 27:23
And he knew him not, for his handes were rough like as ye handes of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.

Genesis 27:25
Then sayde he: Bringe me here then to eate of thy venyson my sonne, that my soule maye blesse the. Then he brought it him, and he ate: and he brought him wyne also, and he dranke.

Genesis 27:27
So he came nye, and he kyssed him. Then smelled he the sauoure of his clothes, and blessed him, and sayde: Beholde, the smell of my sonne is as ye smell of the felde, which ye LORDE hath 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.