Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.
As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.
And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.
His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.
The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;