Say to Tyre,(A) situated at the gateway to the sea,(B) merchant of peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘You say, Tyre,
    “I am perfect in beauty.(C)

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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)

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Footnotes

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

15 “‘The men of Rhodes[a](A) traded with you, and many coastlands(B) were your customers; they paid you with ivory(C) tusks and ebony.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:15 Septuagint; Hebrew Dedan

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