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Ezekiel 27:4
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The Mediterranean Sea is the border around your city. Your builders made you perfectly beautiful, like the ships that sail from you.
You extended your boundaries into the sea. Your builders made your beauty perfect.
"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 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 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.
and Y am set in the herte of the see. Thei that ben in thi coostis that bildiden thee, filliden thi fairnesse;
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thy borders are in the middes of the sea, and thy builders haue made thee of perfit beauty.
Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected 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 sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.
Your home is the sea. Your builders made you like a beautiful ship;
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.
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.
In the heart of the seas [are] thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
thy borders are in the myddest of the see, and thy buylders haue made the maruelous goodly.
Your borders are in the midst 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 have perfected your 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
And blessed hym, saying: Blessed be Abram vnto the hygh God possessour of heauen and earth.
And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousandes, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies.
And it came to passe, that whe Isahac waxed olde, & his eyes were dimme, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest sonne, & saide vnto hym, my sonne? And he sayde vnto hym: here am I.
Bring me venison, and make me daintie meate, that I may eate, and blesse thee before the Lorde, afore my death.
And Rebecca fet goodly rayment of her eldest sonne Esau, whiche were in the house with her, and put them vpon Iacob her younger sonne:
And Isahac said vnto his sonne: how commeth it that thou hast founde it so quickly my sonne? He aunswered: the lorde thy God brought it to my handes.
Then went Iacob to Isahac his father, and he felt hym, and sayde: The voyce is Iacobs voyce, but the handes are the handes of Esau.
And he knewe him not, because his handes were heary as his brother Esaus handes: and so he blessed hym.
Then sayde he: Bryng me, & let me eate of my sonnes venison, that my soule may blesse thee. And he brought hym, and he ate: and he brought hym wine also, and he dranke.
And he went vnto him, & kyssed him, and he smelled the sauour of his rayment, and blessed hym, & saide: See, the smell of my sonne, is as the smell of a fielde which the Lorde 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.
