Ezekiel 27:4-6
New English Translation
4 [a] Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
your builders have perfected your beauty.
5 They crafted[b] all your planks out of fir trees from Senir;[c]
they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.
6 They made your oars from oaks of Bashan;
they made your deck[d] with cypress wood[e] from the coasts of Cyprus.[f]
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 27:4 tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship.
- Ezekiel 27:5 tn Heb “built.”
- Ezekiel 27:5 tn Perhaps the hull or deck. The term is dual, so perhaps it refers to a double-decked ship.
- Ezekiel 27:6 tn Or “hull.”
- Ezekiel 27:6 tc The Hebrew reads, “Your deck they made ivory, daughter of Assyria.” The syntactically difficult “ivory” is understood here as dittography and omitted, though some construe this to refer to ivory inlays. “Daughter of Assyria” is understood here as improper word division, and the vowels are repointed as “cypresses” and translated as “cypress wood.”
- Ezekiel 27:6 tn Heb “from the coastlands (or islands) of Kittim,” generally understood to be a reference to the island of Cyprus, where the Phoenicians had a trading colony on the southeast coast.
Ezekiel 27:4-6
New International Version
4 Your domain was on the high seas;
your builders brought your beauty to perfection.(A)
5 They made all your timbers
of juniper from Senir[a];(B)
they took a cedar from Lebanon(C)
to make a mast for you.
6 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.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 27:5 That is, Mount Hermon
- Ezekiel 27:6 Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.
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