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Tell Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea as a merchant traveling to many coastlands, this is what the Lord God says.

    Tyre, you say, “I am a perfect beauty.”
Your borders were in the heart of the sea.
    Your builders perfected your beauty.
They built for you a double-decked ship,[a] made of fir[b] from Senir.
    They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:5 Or a ship with a double hull. The Hebrew word indicates that the planks were double. The meaning of many of the nautical terms in this section is uncertain.
  2. Ezekiel 27:5 The identification of some of the types of trees is uncertain.