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Of (A)oaks of Bashan
    they made your oars;
they made your deck of pines
    from (B)the coasts of Cyprus,
    inlaid with ivory.

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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.

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
    for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, (A)oaks of Bashan,
    for the thick forest has been felled!

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Wail, you juniper, for the cedar has fallen;
    the stately trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks(A) of Bashan;
    the dense forest(B) has been cut down!(C)

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