27:4 1 Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
your builders have perfected your beauty.
27:10 Men of Persia, Lud, 2 and Put were in your army, men of war.
They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.
27:11 The Arvadites 3 joined your army on your walls all around,
and the Gammadites 4 were in your towers.
They hung their quivers 5 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 sn See Gen 10:22.
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.