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With juniper wood from Senir[a]
    they built all your decks;
A cedar from Lebanon they took
    to make you a mast.
With oaks of Bashan[b]
    they fashioned your oars,
Your bridge, of ivory-inlaid cypress wood
    from the coasts of Kittim.
Fine embroidered linen from Egypt
    became your sail;
Your awnings were made of purple and scarlet
    from the coasts of Elishah.[c](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 27:5 Senir: another name for Mount Hermon; cf. Dt 3:9.
  2. 27:6 Bashan: an area in northern Transjordan, noted for its lush growth and great forests (cf. Is 2:13). Kittim: here, probably Cyprus.
  3. 27:7 Elishah: perhaps another term for Cyprus.