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Ezekiel 27:5 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. "
Ezekiel 27:5
Verse in Context
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3 and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord GOD says: “You, Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty.
5 They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
6 They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.
7 Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner. Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.
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Ezekiel 27:1
"The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 27:2
"“You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;"
Ezekiel 27:3
"and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord GOD says: “You, Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’"
Ezekiel 27:4
"Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty."
Ezekiel 27:6
"They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim."
Ezekiel 27:7
"Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner. Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning."
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