Ezekiel 27:4

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

your builders have perfected your beauty.

Ezekiel 16:25

16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ²  your beauty when you spread ³  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

Ezekiel 27:11

27:11 The Arvadites ⁴  joined your army on your walls all around,

and the Gammadites ⁵  were in your towers.

They hung their quivers ⁶  on your walls all around;

they perfected your beauty.

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

² tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

³ 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.

³ tn Heb “sons of Arvad.”

⁴ sn The identity of the Gammadites is uncertain.

⁵ tn See note on “quivers” in Jer 51:11 on the meaning of Hebrew שֶׁלֶט (shelet) and also M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:553.