“Thus says Yahweh God.
‘O Tyre!
You have said.
‘I am perfect
In beauty.’
Your borders are
In the heart
Of the seas.
Your builders
Made perfect
Your beauty.’”
Yahweh, via Ezekiel, seemed to praise the beauty of Tyre. The people of Tyre thought that they were perfect in beauty. As a city island, her borders were the sea all around her. Somehow her builders made her perfectly beautiful. This seems odd coming after the complete condemnation of Tyre, at the end of the last chapter. This was a strange lamentation about Tyre.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 