Ezekiel 27:4

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders haue perfected thy beautie.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
- American Standard Version (1901)

Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.
- Basic English Bible

Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
- Darby Bible

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
- Webster's Bible

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
- World English Bible

In the heart of the seas [are] thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
- Youngs Literal Bible

Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Wesley's Notes for Ezekiel 27:4

27:2 A lamentation - We ought to mourn for the miseries of other nations, as well as of our own, out of an affection for mankind in general; yea, tho' they have brought them upon themselves.

27:3 At the entry - Heb. Entrances. She was about four furlongs, or half an English mile from the continent, as it were in the very door of the sea.

27:5 They - The shipwrights. Shipboards - The planks and benches, or transoms for their ships. Fir - trees - Of the best and finest fir - trees. Lebanon - Whose cedars excelled others.

27:6 With box - From the isles, and parts about the Ionian, Aegean, and other seas of the Mediterranean, where box - tree is a native, and of great growth and firmness, fit to saw into boards for benches; they were conveyed to Tyre, where their artists inlaid these box boards with ivory, and made them beautiful seats in their ships.