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Your builders used cypress trees
    from the mountains of Senir to make your planks.
They used cedar trees from Lebanon
    to make your mast.
They used oak trees from Bashan
    to make your oars.
They used pine trees from Cyprus
    to make the cabin on your deck.[a]
    They decorated that shelter with ivory.
For your sail, they used colorful linen made in Egypt.
    That sail was your flag.
The coverings over your cabin were blue and purple.
    They came from the coast of Cyprus.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:6 deck The floor of a ship.
  2. Ezekiel 27:7 Cyprus Literally, “Elishah.” This might be the area near Enkomi, Cyprus, or it might be the Greek islands.

They made all your timbers
    of juniper from Senir[a];(A)
they took a cedar from Lebanon(B)
    to make a mast for you.
Of oaks(C) from Bashan
    they made your oars;
of cypress wood[b] from the coasts of Cyprus(D)
    they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
Fine embroidered linen(E) from Egypt was your sail
    and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple(F)
    from the coasts of Elishah.(G)

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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.