Ezekiel 27:4
◄  Ezekiel 27:4  ►
New International Version (©2011)
Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You extended your boundaries into the sea. Your builders made your beauty perfect.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Your realm was in the heart of the sea; your builders perfected your beauty.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You've set your national boundary in international waters. Your builders made you downright beautiful!"'"

NET Bible (©2006)
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Your home is the sea. " 'Your builders made your beauty perfect.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

American King James Version
Your borders are in the middle of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

American Standard Version
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:

Darby Bible Translation
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

English Revised Version
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

World English Bible
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

Young's Literal Translation
In the heart of the seas are thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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:

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

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. 1. Od. xiv: -

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Geneva Study Bible

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

King James Translators' Notes

midst: Heb. heart

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. Tyre, in consonance with her seagirt position, separated by a strait of half a mile from the mainland, is described as a ship built of the best material, and manned with the best mariners and skilful pilots, but at last wrecked in tempestuous seas (Eze 27:26).

Ezekiel 27:4 Parallel Commentaries
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A Lament for Tyre
…3And say to Tyrus, O you that are situate at the entry of the sea, which are a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus said the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, you have said, I am of perfect beauty. 4Your borders are in the middle of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty. 5They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you. …

Ezekiel 27:3 Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'You say, Tyre, "I am perfect in beauty."
Ezekiel 27:5 They made all your timbers of juniper from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
Ezekiel 28:15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.
Ezekiel 28:17 Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.