Ezekiel 27:5-7
New English Translation
5 They crafted[a] all your planks out of fir trees from Senir;[b]
they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.
6 They made your oars from oaks of Bashan;
they made your deck[c] with cypress wood[d] from the coasts of Cyprus.[e]
7 Fine linen from Egypt, woven with patterns, was used for your sail
to serve as your banner;
blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah[f] were used for your deck’s awning.
Footnotes
- 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 27:7 sn This is probably a reference to Cyprus.
Ezekiel 27:5-7
New International Version
5 They made all your timbers
of juniper from Senir[a];(A)
they took a cedar from Lebanon(B)
to make a mast for you.
6 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.
7 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)
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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