Ezekiel 27:4

4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

Ezekiel 27:4 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 27:4

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 ^F17 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Ex Trago, l. 18. c. 3.

Ezekiel 27:4 In-Context

2 “Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

3 Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

5 They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

6 Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.