Ezekiel 27:3
Good News Translation
that city which stands at the edge of the sea and does business with the people living on every seacoast. Tell her what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "Tyre, you boasted of your perfect beauty.

New Revised Standard Version
and say to Tyre, which sits at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, Thus says the Lord GOD: O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfect in beauty.”

Contemporary English Version
the city that is built along the sea and that trades with nations along the coast. Tell the people of Tyre that the following message is from me: Tyre, you brag about your perfect beauty,

New American Bible
and say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance to the sea, trader to peoples on many coastlands, Thus says the Lord GOD: Tyre, you said, “I am a ship, perfect in beauty”;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,

O thou.

Ezekiel 27:4,25 And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty: . . .

Ezekiel 26:17 And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall say to thee: How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast strong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all did dread?

Ezekiel 28:2,3 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God. . . .

Isaiah 23:2 Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon passing over the sea, have filled thee.

a merchant

Ezekiel 27:12 The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead,

Isaiah 23:3,8,11 The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations. . . .

Revelation 18:3,11-15 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. . . .

I am

Ezekiel 27:4,10,11 And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty: . . .

Ezekiel 28:12-17 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. . . .

Psalm 50:2 Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

Isaiah 23:9 The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.

Context
A Lament for Tyre
2Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre: 3And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,4And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:…
Cross References
Psalm 83:7
Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

Isaiah 23:3
The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations.

Ezekiel 16:15
But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his.

Ezekiel 26:12
They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

Ezekiel 26:17
And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall say to thee: How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast strong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all did dread?

Ezekiel 27:4
And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:

Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.

Ezekiel 28:15
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.

Ezekiel 28:17
And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou hast lost thy wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee before the face of kings, that they might behold thee.

Ezekiel 27:2
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