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They made your oars
    with oaks from Bashan;
your deck they made with inlaid ivory,
    with cypress trees from the coastlands of Cyprus.[a]
Your sail was fine linen with colorful weaving from Egypt
    to serve as a banner for you;[b]
blue and purple cloth from the coastlands of Cyprus[c]
    was your awning.
The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvan
    were your rowers;
your skilled men,[d] O Tyre, were from your own people,[e]
    and they were your seamen.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:6 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  2. Ezekiel 27:7 Literally “to be for you as a banner”
  3. Ezekiel 27:7 Or “Elishah”
  4. Ezekiel 27:8 Literally “wise men”
  5. Ezekiel 27:8 Literally “in you”