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.

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.

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Of (A)oaks from Bashan they made your oars;
The company of Ashurites have inlaid your planks
With ivory from (B)the coasts of [a]Cyprus.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:6 Heb. Kittim, western lands, especially Cyprus