They made your oars of oaks from Bashan.
They made your deck of cypress wood
from the coasts of Cyprus,(A)
inlaid with ivory.

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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.

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Footnotes

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

Wail, cypress,(A) for the cedar has fallen;
the glorious trees are destroyed!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,(B)
for the stately forest has fallen!

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Wail, you juniper, for the cedar has fallen;
    the stately trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks(A) of Bashan;
    the dense forest(B) has been cut down!(C)

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