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.

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

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