Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 27:7

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27, 29 onwards) Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them: Thus says the Lord God: Moreover, your fathers have blasphemed against me and have treated me with contempt, even as they spurned me. And I brought them into the land that I had lifted my hand to give them ((Vulgate adds: that la…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

7Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied thy couch, to put honor upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elishah; and they became thy coverings.

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5Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Lebanon, and wood to make thee masts of fir.

6They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Bashan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Kittim.

— Ezekiel 27:7 —

8And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Arvadites were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, who were in thee, these were thy pilots.

9The elders of the Gebalians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west.

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