Isaiah 54:11
"O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
1 Chronicles 29:2
So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.
Exodus 2:23
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
Exodus 3:2
And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Exodus 3:7
Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
Exodus 24:10
and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
Exodus 28:17-20
You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;
Exodus 39:10-14
And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'
1 Kings 5:17
At the king's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 129:1-3
"Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth"-- let Israel now say--
Song of Songs 5:14
His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires.
Isaiah 14:32
What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Isaiah 28:16
therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.'
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me."
Isaiah 51:17-19
Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering.
Isaiah 51:21
Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine:
Isaiah 51:23-5
and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, 'Bow down, that we may pass over'; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over."
Isaiah 54:6
For the LORD has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.
Isaiah 60:15
Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.
Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!'
Lamentations 1:1-2
How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.
Lamentations 1:16-17
"For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed."
Lamentations 1:21
"They heardmy groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. You have brought the day you announced; now let them be as I am.
Ezekiel 1:26
And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.
Ezekiel 10:1
Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.
Ezekiel 40:1-42
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me to the city.
Matthew 8:24
And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.
John 16:20-22
Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Acts 27:18-20
Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo.
Ephesians 2:20
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
1 Peter 2:4-6
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
Revelation 11:3-10
And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."
Revelation 12:13-17
And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
Revelation 21:18-21
The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass.