Ezekiel 27:23-25

Contemporary English Version

²³You also did business with merchants from the cities of Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, ²⁴and they gave you expensive clothing, purple and embroidered cloth, brightly colored rugs, and strong rope. ²⁵^(A) Large, seagoing ships^[a] carried your goods wherever they needed to go.

You were like a ship
loaded with heavy cargo

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Footnotes

27.25 Large, seagoing ships: The Hebrew text has “Ships of Tarshish,” which may have been a Phoenician city in Spain. “Ships of Tarshish” probably means large, seagoing ships.