Ezekiel 27:4
Good News Translation
Your home is the sea. Your builders made you like a beautiful ship;

New Revised Standard Version
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.

Contemporary English Version
and your control of the sea. You are a ship built to perfection.

New American Bible
In the heart of the sea was your territory; your builders perfected your beauty.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

midst [heb] heart

Ezekiel 26:5 She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations.

Context
A Lament for Tyre
3And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty, 4And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:5With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 27:3
And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,

Ezekiel 27:5
With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.

Ezekiel 28:15
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.

Ezekiel 28:17
And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou hast lost thy wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee before the face of kings, that they might behold thee.

Ezekiel 27:3
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