the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Ezekiel 27:4
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Your realm was in the heart of the sea;your builders perfected your beauty.
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.
You were at home on the high seas. Your builders made your beauty perfect.
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
Thy borders are in the middes of the sea, and thy builders haue made thee of perfit beauty.
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.
Your borders are in the heart of the seas;Your builders have perfected your beauty.
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.
and your control of the sea. You are a ship built to perfection.
Your borders are in the heart of the sea, your builders perfected your beauty.
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
The Mediterranean Sea is the border around your city. Your builders made you perfectly beautiful, like the ships that sail from you.
Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.
Your home is the sea. Your builders made you like a beautiful ship;
In the heart of the seas are your boundaries; your builders perfected your beauty.
In the heart of the seas are your borders, your builders have perfected your beauty.
thy borders are in the myddest of the see, and thy buylders haue made the maruelous goodly.
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders haue perfected thy beautie.
Thy borders are in the mids of the seas, thy buylders haue made perfite thy beautie.
In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
and Y am set in the herte of the see. Thei that ben in thi coostis that bildiden thee, filliden thi fairnesse;
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
Your borders are in the midst of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty.
Your home is on the sea. Your builders have made you perfect in beauty.
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.
In the heart of the seas, were thy bounds, - Thy builders perfected thy beauty:
And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.
In the heart of the seas [are] thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Contextual Overview
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
Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
They gave her this blessing as she parted: "Our sister, may you become the mother of many millions! May your descendants be strong and conquer the cities of their enemies."
One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, "My son." "Yes, Father?" Esau replied.
‘Bring me some wild game and prepare me a delicious meal. Then I will bless you in the Lord 's presence before I die.'
Then she took Esau's favorite clothes, which were there in the house, and gave them to her younger son, Jacob.
Isaac asked, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "The Lord your God put it in my path!" Jacob replied.
So Jacob went closer to his father, and Isaac touched him. "The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's," Isaac said.
But he did not recognize Jacob, because Jacob's hands felt hairy just like Esau's. So Isaac prepared to bless Jacob.
Then Isaac said, "Now, my son, bring me the wild game. Let me eat it, and then I will give you my blessing." So Jacob took the food to his father, and Isaac ate it. He also drank the wine that Jacob served him.
So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, "Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, 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.
