Of oaks(A) from Bashan
    they made your oars;
of cypress wood[a] from the coasts of Cyprus(B)
    they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
Fine embroidered linen(C) from Egypt was your sail
    and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple(D)
    from the coasts of Elishah.(E)
Men of Sidon and Arvad(F) were your oarsmen;
    your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:6 Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.

Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

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