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Your builders made all your boards
    of fir trees from Mount Hermon.
They have taken a cedar tree from Lebanon.
    They took it to make a ship’s mast for you.
They made your oars
    from oak trees in Bashan.
They made your deck
    from cypress trees from the coast of Cyprus.
    Your deck has ivory set into it.
Your sail of linen with designs sewed on it came from Egypt.
    Your sail became like a flag for you.
Your cloth shades over the deck were blue and purple.
    They came from the island of Cyprus.

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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.