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Your borders are in the midst of the seas.
    Your builders have perfected your beauty.
They have made all your ship boards
    of fir trees from Senir;
they have taken cedars from Lebanon
    to make a mast for you.
Of the oaks of Bashan
    they have made your oars;
with ivory they have inlaid your deck of boxwood
    out of the coastlands of Cyprus.

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Your domain was on the high seas;
    your builders brought your beauty to perfection.(A)
They made all your timbers
    of juniper from Senir[a];(B)
they took a cedar from Lebanon(C)
    to make a mast for you.
Of oaks(D) from Bashan
    they made your oars;
of cypress wood[b] from the coasts of Cyprus(E)
    they made your deck, adorned with ivory.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:5 That is, Mount Hermon
  2. Ezekiel 27:6 Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.