Ezekiel 27:4

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

In the heart of the seas, were thy bounds, - Thy builders perfected thy beauty:

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.

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 Yahweh came unto me, saying: ² Thou, therefore, son of man, Take up over Tyre a dirge; ³ And thou shalt say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest by the entrances of the sea, Thou merchant of the peoples unto many shores, - Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, O Tyre, Thou saidst, I, am the perfection of beauty! ⁴ In the heart of the seas, were thy bounds, - Thy builders perfected thy beauty: ⁵ With fir-trees from Senir, but they for thee all the two-decked vessels, - Cedar from Lebanon, fetched they, to make masts for thee: ⁶ With oaks from Bashan, made they thine oars, - Thy benches, made they of ivory, inlaid with boxwood, From the shores of the West: ⁷ Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, was thy sail, To serve thee for ensign, - Blue and purple from the shores of Aeolis became thine awning: ⁸ the inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad, Became rowers for thee, - Thine own skilled men O Tyre, were within thee, They were thy sailors: ⁹ the elders of Byblus and the skilled men thereof, were within thee, Thy calkers, - All the ships of the sea and their mariners, were within thee, To carry on thy traffic, ¹⁰ They of Persia and Lud and Phut were in thine army, Thy men of war, - Shield and helmet, hung they up within thee, They set forth thy splendour:

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
So he blessed him and said, - Blessed be Abram of GOD Most High, possessor of the heavens and earth;

Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, Our sister! become thou, thousands of ten thousands, - And let thy seed take possession of the gate of them that hate them!

Genesis 27:1
And it came to pass that Isaac, was old, and his eyes became too dim to see, so he called Esau his elder son and said unto him My son! And he said unto him, Behold me!

Genesis 27:7
Bring in for me gains and make for me dainty meats, that I may eat; and let me bless thee in the presence of Yahweh before my death.

Genesis 27:15
Then took Rebekah the garments of Esau her elder son, the costly ones, which were with her in the house, - and put them on Jacob her younger son:

Genesis 27:20
Then said Isaac unto his son. How is it thou hast been so quick in finding, my son? And he said, Because Yahweh thy God caused it so to fall out before me.

Genesis 27:22
So Jacob came near unto Isaac his father, and he felt him; then said he the voice is the voice of Jacob; But, the hands, are the hands of Esau.

Genesis 27:23
So he did not find him out, because, his hands were like the hands of Esau his brother hairy, - so he blessed him.

Genesis 27:25
So he said, Bring it near to me., that I may eat of the game of my son, To the end my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat, and be brought in to him wine, and he drank.

Genesis 27:27
So he came near, and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him, - and said. See! the smell of my son, As the smell of a field, which Yahweh 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.