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Tyre’s Luxurious Sailing Vessels

‘They brought in a ship
    made with pine planking from Senir,
configured with a mast carved from a cedar from Lebanon,
equipped with oars
    made from oaks from Bashan,
with ivory-inlaid cypress wood[a] decking
    imported from the coastlands of Cypress,
with sails made with embroidered Egyptian linen,
    festooned with blue banners,
and with your sun shades made
    with purple cloth from Cypress.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:6 Lit. daughter of Assyria