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Fine embroidered linen from Egypt
    became your sail;
Your awnings were made of purple and scarlet
    from the coasts of Elishah.[a](A)
Inhabitants of Sidon[b] and Arvad
    were your oarsmen;
Your own sages, Tyre, were on board,
    serving as your sailors.(B)
The elders and sages of Gebal
    were with you to caulk your seams.
Every ship and sailor on the sea
    came to you to carry on trade.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 27:7 Elishah: perhaps another term for Cyprus.
  2. 27:8–9 Sidon…Gebal: Phoenician cities in Tyre’s orbit of influence; Gebal is classical Byblos.