Its stones are the source of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx or the sapphire.
As for the earth, from it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire.
There is a path that no bird knows, and that the vulture’s eye has not seen;
and they saw the God of Israel, and under His feet there was something like a paved work of sapphire stone as clear as the sky itself.
His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is carved ivory, inlaid with sapphires.
O afflicted one, tossed with tempest and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors and lay your foundations with sapphires.
The foundations of the wall of the city were decorated with all kinds of precious jewels. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;