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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.
They made your oars of oak from Bashan.
    Your planks were made of pine,[c] inlaid with ivory,
        from the coasts of Cyprus.[d]

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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.
  3. Ezekiel 27:6 The translation pine follows a different word division than that which occurs in the main Hebrew text, which has the reading daughter of Assyria.
  4. Ezekiel 27:6 The Hebrew reads Kittim. This term may include locations other than Cyprus.