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Your frontiers bordered the high seas,
    and your builders perfected your beauty.
They used cypress from Senir[a]
    to construct all your planks;
they took cedar of Lebanon
    to make a mast above you.
From oaks of Bashan,
    they made your oars;
they constructed your deck with cypress[b]
    from the coasts of Kittim.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:5 Senir: the massif of Mount Hermon.
  2. Ezekiel 27:6 Cypress: in Hebrew, Kittim. The name is used here in a broad sense to include the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean.