They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?

How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!