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A Lament for Tyre

Ezekiel 27:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.
KJV
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.midst: Heb. heart
WEB
Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty.
ASV
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
LSV
Your borders [are] in the heart of the seas, || Your builders have perfected your beauty.
YLT
In the heart of the seas [are] thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
DBY
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
DRC
And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:
GNV
Thy borders are in the middes of the sea, and thy builders haue made thee of perfit beauty.
JPS
Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
LXXE
In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
בְּלֵ֥ב יַמִּ֖ים גְּבוּלָ֑יִךְ בֹּנַ֕יִךְ כָּלְל֖וּ יָפְיֵֽךְ׃
LXX-Br
Σὺ εἶπας, ἐγὼ περιέθηκα ἐμαυτῇ κάλλος μου, ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης τῷ Βεελεὶμ υἱοί σου περιέθηκάν σοι κάλλος.

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  • Ezekiel 26:5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,

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