Ezekiel 27:4

Bishop's Bible

Thy borders are in the mids of the seas, thy buylders haue made perfite thy beautie.

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.

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.

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 worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying: ² O thou sonne of man, take vp a lamentable complaint vpon Tyre, ³ And say vnto Tyre that is situate at the entry of the sea, whiche is the mart of the people for many iles, thus sayth the Lorde God O Tyre, thou hast sayde, I am of perfite beautie. ⁴ Thy borders are in the mids of the seas, thy buylders haue made perfite thy beautie. ⁵ They haue made all thy [ship] bordes of firre trees of Shenir, from Libanus haue they taken Cedar trees to make thee mastes: ⁶ And the Okes of Basan to make thee ores, they haue made thy benches of iuory, gotten in Assyria, brought out of the iles of Chittim. ⁷ Fine linnen with broidred worke out of Egypt was spread ouer thee to be thy sayle: blewe silke and purple out of the iles of Elishah was thy couering. ⁸ The inhabitours of Sidon and Aruad were thy mariners: and thy wise men O Tyre, that were in thee, were thy shipmaisters. ⁹ The auncient and wyse men of Gebal were in thee, thy stoppers of chinkes: all shippes of the sea with their shipmen were in thee, to occupie thy marchaundise. ¹⁰ The Perses, Lydians, and Phutens were in thy armies, thy men of warre: these haged vp their shieldes & helmets in thee, these set foorth thyne honour.

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 blessed hym, saying: Blessed be Abram vnto the hygh God possessour of heauen and earth.

Genesis 24:60
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.

Genesis 27:1
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.

Genesis 27:7
Bring me venison, and make me daintie meate, that I may eate, and blesse thee before the Lorde, afore my death.

Genesis 27:15
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:

Genesis 27:20
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.

Genesis 27:22
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.

Genesis 27:23
And he knewe him not, because his handes were heary as his brother Esaus handes: and so he blessed hym.

Genesis 27:25
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.

Genesis 27:27
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.