וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י כַּֽדְכֹד֙ שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֔יִךְ וּשְׁעָרַ֖יִךְ לְאַבְנֵ֣י אֶקְדָּ֑ח וְכָל־גְּבוּלֵ֖ךְ לְאַבְנֵי־חֵֽפֶץ׃
און איך װעל מאַכן דײַנע טורעמשפּיצן פֿון רובין, און דײַנע טױערן פֿון גאַרפֿונקלשטײנער, און דײַן גאַנצן געמאַרק פֿון גלוסטיקע שטײנער.
Tze'enah Ure'enah
“I will make your pinnacles of rubies, etc.” [54:12]. I will make your windows so that the sun will shine in and will illumine large pearls within, and your gate will shine brightly with precious stones, like a flame. All the stones that were found in your boundaries will now become precious stones and pearls.
Ibn Ezra
כדכד Agates. It is hap. leg.; it is the name of a precious stone.
Rashi
your windows Jonathan renders: your woodwork, and Menahem associated it with (Dan. 7:10): “ministered to Him (יְשַׁמְּשׁוּנֵהּ).” (Menahem, apparently renders: your utensils, i.e., the vessels that serve you.) And some interpret it as an expression of a sun (שֶׁמֶשׁ), windows through which the sun shines, and they make opposite it a barrier of kinds of colored glass for beauty, and Midrash Psalms interprets שִׁמְשׁוֹתַיִךְ as well as שֶׁמֶשׁ וּמָגֵן (Ps. 84:12) as “the pinnacles of the wall.”
Rashi
of carbuncle stones Heb. אֶקְדָּח. Jonathan renders: of gomer stones. Gumrin is the Aramaic translation of גֶּחָלִים, coals. He interprets אֶקְדָּח as an expression similar to (supra 50: 11) “who kindle (קֹדְחֵי) fire,” and they are a type of stones that burn like torches and that is the carbuncle (karbokle in O.F.), an expression of a coal. Others interpret it as an expression of a drill, i.e., huge stones of which the entire opening of the doorway is drilled, and the doorposts, the threshold, and the lintel are all hewn from the stone.