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You are like a ship built of finest fir from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. They made your oars from oaks of Bashan. The walls of your cabin are of cypress from the southern coast of Cyprus. Your sails are made of Egypt’s finest linens; you stand beneath awnings bright with purple and scarlet dyes from eastern 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.