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Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance[a] of the sea,[b] merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”
[c] Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
your builders have perfected your beauty.
They crafted[d] all your planks out of fir trees from Senir;[e]
they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:3 tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.
  2. Ezekiel 27:3 sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.
  3. Ezekiel 27:4 tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.
  4. Ezekiel 27:5 tn Heb “built.”
  5. Ezekiel 27:5 tn Perhaps the hull or deck. The term is dual, so perhaps it refers to a double-decked ship.