1. Silver has its fissures where it is first found, and gold has a place where it is melted.
2. Iron is taken from the earth, and ore, unbound by heat, is turned into brass.
3. He has established a time for darkness, and he has settled on an end for all things, as well as for the stone that is in the gloom and shadow of death.
4. The burning separates a pilgrim people from those who have been forgotten by the feet of the destitute man and from the unapproachable.
5. The land, where bread appeared in its place, has been destroyed by fire.
6. Its stones are embedded with sapphires, and its soil, with gold.
7. The bird does not know its path, nor has the eye of the vulture beheld it.