They [a]made all your planks of fir trees from (A)Senir;
They took a cedar from Lebanon to make you a mast.
Of (B)oaks from Bashan they made your oars;
The company of Ashurites have inlaid your planks
With ivory from (C)the coasts of [b]Cyprus.
Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was what you spread for your sail;
Blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was what covered you.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:5 built
  2. Ezekiel 27:6 Heb. Kittim, western lands, especially Cyprus

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.