Ezekiel 27:4

4 Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.

Ezekiel 27:4 in Other Translations

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

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

4 You extended your boundaries into the sea. Your builders made your beauty perfect.

4 You ruled the high seas from a real beauty, crafted to perfection.

4 Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

4 Your home is the sea. "'Your builders made your beauty perfect.

4 Your realm was in the heart of the sea; your builders perfected your beauty.

4 You were like a ship that ruled over the high seas. Your builders made you perfect and beautiful.

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 “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre.

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.”

4 Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.

5 They made all your timbers of juniper from Senir ; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

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

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 28:12