Revelation 4:3

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.

Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.

Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.

Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face.

He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its boughs. The pine trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.

You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

“ ‘ “Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth was illuminated with his glory.

“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”

I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”

I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”

He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel.

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, nor will it be valued with pure gold.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.

You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.

You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’

They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above.

Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.