Ezekiel 27:4

27:4 ¹ Your borders are in the heart of the seas;

your builders have perfected your beauty.

Ezekiel 16:14-15

16:14 Your fame ²  spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord. ³ 

16:15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty ⁴  became his.

Ezekiel 16:25

16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ⁵  your beauty when you spread ⁶  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

Ezekiel 27:11

27:11 The Arvadites ⁷  joined your army on your walls all around,

and the Gammadites ⁸  were in your towers.

They hung their quivers ⁹  on your walls all around;

they perfected your beauty.

Ezekiel 28:7

28:7 I am about to bring foreigners ¹⁰  against you, the most terrifying of nations.

They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, ¹¹ 

and they will defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 28:17

28:17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty;

you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor.

I threw you down to the ground;

I placed you before kings, that they might see you.

Ezekiel 27:3

27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance ¹²  of the sea, ¹³  merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”

Ezekiel 28:12

28:12 “Son of man, sing ¹⁴  a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘You were the sealer ¹⁵  of perfection,

full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8

31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,

nor could the fir trees ¹⁶  match its boughs;

the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;

no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

¹ tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.

² tn Heb “name.”

³ sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.

³ tn Heb “it” (so KJV, ASV); the referent (the beauty in which the prostitute trusted, see the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

⁵ tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.

⁵ tn Heb “sons of Arvad.”

⁶ sn The identity of the Gammadites is uncertain.

⁷ tn See note on “quivers” in Jer 51:11 on the meaning of Hebrew שֶׁלֶט (shelet) and also M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:553.

⁶ sn This is probably a reference to the Babylonians.

⁷ tn Heb “they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.”

⁷ tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.

⁸ sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.

⁸ tn Heb “lift up.”

⁹ tn For a discussion of possible nuances of this phrase, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:580-81.

⁹ tn Or “cypress trees” (cf. NASB, NLT); NIV “pine trees.”