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Ezekiel 27:4

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, literally, "in the heart of the sea," for it was this which surrounded the island metropolis; thy builders have perfected thy beauty. The picture gradually changes to that describing a beautiful vessel, since the city, surrounded by a sea of masts, had the appearance of a great seagoing vessel.

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See also Ezekiel 27:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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_...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 27:1. Ezekiel 27:1 give an interesting description of the world-wide commerce and glory of this proud world city. “Sic transit gloria mundi,” thus passeth the glory of the world! Of the proud...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 27. THE DIRGE OVER TYRE. The interest of the brilliant poem that follows is greatly enhanced by the description of the commerce of Tyre in a passage (Ezekiel 27:9_ b_ - Ezekiel 27:25_ a_) rema...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BUILDERS. sons. Compare Iea. 62. c....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _borders … midst of the seas_ lit. _heart_of the seas, a phrase which appears to mean not "far out at sea," but, in the deep waters of the sea, ch. Ezekiel 28:2; Ezekiel 28:8; Exodus 15:8;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. THE LAMENTATION OVER TYRE 27:1-36 Chapter 27 consists of an allegorical dirge song artistically interrupted by a prose section. Tyre is pictured as a beautiful ship superbly fitted out and manned...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A. The Ship Prepared for Sailing 27:1-11 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) NOW as for you, son of man, take Up a lamentation over Tyre, (3) and say to Tyre, who dwell...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. THY BORDERS ARE IN THE MIDST OF THE SEAS, THY BUILDERS HAVE PERFECTED THY BEAUTY. Tyre, in consonance with her sea-...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WRECK OF THE GALLANT SHIP Under the figure of a ship, splendidly equipped, fully manned, and richly laden, but steered into stormy waters and wrecked, Ezekiel describes the fall of Tyre. In Ezeki...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 27 A FUNERAL SONG FOR TYRE – EZEKIEL 27:1-11 V1 The

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בְּ לֵ֥ב יַמִּ֖ים גְּבוּלָ֑יִךְ בֹּנַ֕יִךְ כָּלְל֖וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1; Ezekiel 28:1 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the chapter we have jus...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    At the command of Jehovah, Ezekiel then took up a lamentation for Tyre. This took the form of a pictorial representation of her as a gallant ship trafficking among the nations and ultimately wrecked,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Neighbours of Sidon, Josue xix. 29. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "thy children." Protestants, "thy builders." (Haydock) --- The description of the Tyrian grandeur, shews their more woeful ruin. (Worthing...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I have not interrupted the reading of the whole Chapter, for from the beginning to the close of the Chapter, it is but one and the same subject. The riches, trade, and commerce of Tyrus, fills the who...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), bec...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. Ver. 4. _Thy borders are in the midst of the sea._] Wherewith thou art compassed and crowned, as it were, Isa 23:8...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Take up a lamentation for Tyrus_ This alludes to the mournful lamentations used at funerals, wherein the mourning women recounted every thing that was valuable or praiseworthy belonging to the deceas...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MIDST: _ Heb._ heart...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-25 Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre int...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Weak borders, which an enemy easily breaks through, are a great defect in a state; well, Tyre, thou art well secured here, thine are in the sea that surrounds and secureth thee. THY BUILDERS; thy firs...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 27:4 borders H1366 midst H3820 seas H3220 builders H1129 (H8802) perfected H3634 (H8804) beauty H3308...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, “And you, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre. And say to Tyre: “You, O Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty. Your borders are in the heart...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Lamentation for Tyre. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God takes notice of the vain conceits men have of themselves in their prosperity. When they pride themselves on pomp and pleasur...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 27:6. _The isles of Chittim._ Cilicia, Cyprus, Macedonia, the Greek islands, or Apulia on the shores of Italy. Thus critics take the word in a general sense. Ezekiel 27:9. _Gebal,_ a district...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Take up a lamentation for Tyrus._ A PROUD CITY The men of the world are wise, choosing the fittest places for their own advantage and interest. Let us learn so much of the men of the world, to be w...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 27:1 This second installment of the prophecy against TYRE is both simple and complex. It follows a simple story line, in the form of a lament, but the language and technical de...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    TYRE’S FORMER GREATNESS, SUGGESTING A LAMENTATION OVER HER SAD DOWNFALL (Chap. 27) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“The lamentation commences with a picture of the glory of the city of Tyre, its situation, its arch...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 27:2 TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR TYRUS. The dirge over the merchant-city that follows, the doom _sic transit gloria mundi, _worked out with a fullness of detail which reminds us of t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So the word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation (Ezekiel 27:1-2) This is a wailing, a cry for Tyrus. This is lamenting the destruction that is come. An...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 26:5...

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