27:4 1 Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
your builders have perfected your beauty.
“‘Your heart is proud 3 and you said, “I am a god; 4
I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –
yet you are a man and not a god,
though you think you are godlike. 5
1 tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.
2 tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).
3 tn Heb “lifted up.”
4 tn Or “I am divine.”
5 tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”