Ezekiel 27:3-4

27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance ¹  of the sea, ²  merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

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

27:4 ³ Your borders are in the heart of the seas;

your builders have perfected your beauty.

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¹ tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.

² sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.

³ tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.