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Webster's Bible Translation

Ezekiel 27:4

Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy 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.
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 word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre; 3 And say to Tyre, O thou that art situated at the entry of the sea, [which art] a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyre, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 5 They have made all thy [ship]-boards of fir-trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. 6 [Of] the oaks of Bashan have they made thy oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles of Chittim. 7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise [men], O Tyre, [that] were in thee, were thy pilots. 9 The ancients of Gebal and its wise [men] were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. 10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thy army, thy military men: they hung the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

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, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them.
Genesis 27:1
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said to him, My son: and he said to him, Behold, [here am] I.
Genesis 27:7
Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD, before my death.
Genesis 27:15
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which was with her in the house, and put it upon Jacob her younger son:
Genesis 27:20
And Isaac said to his son, How [is it] that thou hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought [it] to me.
Genesis 27:22
And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau.
Genesis 27:23
And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: So he blessed him.
Genesis 27:25
And he said, bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he ate: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis 27:27
And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son [is] as the smell of a field which the LORD 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.


 
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