Ezekiel 27:5
They have built of firs from Senir all your double-boarded ships for you, || They have taken of cedars from Lebanon to make a mast for you,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
4Your borders [are] in the heart of the seas, || Your builders have perfected your beauty.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:9(Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),
1 Kings 5:6And now, command, and they cut down cedars for me out of Lebanon, and my servants are with your servants, and I give the hire of your servants to you according to all that you say, for you have known that there is not a man among us acquainted with cutting wood, like the Sidonians.”
Psalms 29:5The voice of YHWH [is] shattering cedars, || Indeed, YHWH shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalms 104:16The trees of YHWH [are] satisfied, || Cedars of Lebanon that He has planted,
Isaiah 14:8Even firs have rejoiced over you, || Cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you have lain down, || The hewer does not come up against us.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 27:2-26
The Prosperity of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; 3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God ; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from… Read the whole commentary →