Isaiah 54:11
"O afflicted [one], driven away, [who] is not consoled. Look! I [am] about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.
1 Chronicles 29:2
So I have provided for the house of my God according to all my strength, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood, [along with] an abundance of onyx stones, stones for settings, stones of turquoise, and variegated stones, and all [kinds of] precious stones and alabaster stones.
Exodus 2:23
{And then} during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the {Israelites} groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.
Exodus 3:2
And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed.
Exodus 3:7
And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.
Exodus 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel, and [what was] under his feet [was] like sapphire tile work and like the very heavens for clearness.
Exodus 28:17-20
And you will fill it [with] stone mounting, four rows [of] stone, a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald [is] the first row;
Exodus 39:10-14
And they filled it [with] four rows of stone; a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald [was] the first row;
Deuteronomy 31:17
And {my anger shall flare up against them} on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find them, and they shall say on that day, '[Is it] not because our God is not in our midst [that] these disasters have found us?'
1 Kings 5:17
When the king commanded, they quarried great stones [and] precious stones to lay [the] foundation of the house [with] hewn stones.
Psalm 34:19
Many [are the] distresses of [the] righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 129:1-3
"Too often they have attacked me from my youth." Let Israel say,
Song of Songs 5:14
His arms [are] {rods} of gold {engraved with} jewels; his belly [is] polished ivory covered with sapphires.
Isaiah 14:32
And what will one answer [the] messengers of [the] nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and the needy of his people will take refuge in it.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: "Look! I [am] laying a stone in Zion, a {tested} stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation: 'The one who trusts will not {panic}.'
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me!"
Isaiah 51:17-19
Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Stand up, Jerusalem, who have drunk from the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunk the goblet, the cup of staggering; you have drained [it] out.
Isaiah 51:21
Therefore hear now this afflicted [one] and drunken [one] but not from wine.
Isaiah 51:23-5
And I will put it in the hand of your tormenters, who have said to {you}, 'Bow down that we may {pass} over [you]!' And you have {made} your back like the ground, and like the street for those who {pass} over [you]."
Isaiah 54:6
For Yahweh has called you like a wife forsaken and hurt of spirit, like [the] wife of childhood when she is rejected, says your God.
Isaiah 60:15
Instead of you being forsaken and hated {with no one passing through,} I will {make} you an everlasting {object of pride}, a joy of {coming generations}.
Jeremiah 30:17
For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,' {declares} Yahweh. 'Because they have called you an outcast, [saying], "It is Zion, there is no [one who] cares for her." '
Lamentations 1:1-2
How desolate the city sits [that] was full of people! She has become like a widow, [once] great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer.
Lamentations 1:16-17
For these [things], I am weeping, {my eyes flow with tears}; because a comforter is far from me, one to restore my life. My sons are desolate because [the] enemy has prevailed.
Lamentations 1:21
They hear that I was groaning; [there is] no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard my misery, they are pleased that you have done it. Bring [that] day that you have proclaimed, And let them be like me.
Ezekiel 1:26
And from above the expanse that [was] above their heads [there was] the likeness of a throne, {looking like a sapphire}, and above the likeness of the throne [was] a likeness similar to [the] appearance of a human on it, [but] {above it}.
Ezekiel 10:1
And I looked, and look! On the expanse that [was] above the head of the cherubim [something] like a stone of sapphire, [and] like [the] appearance of [the] shape of a throne it appeared above them.
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 destroyed, in this day exactly, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there
Matthew 8:24
And behold, a great storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being inundated by the waves, but he himself was asleep.
John 16:20-22
Truly, truly I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will change to joy.
John 16:33
I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."
Acts 27:18-20
And [because] we were violently battered by the storm, on the next [day] {they began} jettisoning [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
to whom you are drawing near, a living stone rejected by men but chosen [and] precious in the sight of God.
Revelation 11:3-10
And I will grant [authority] to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy [for one] thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed 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
And the material of its wall [is] jasper, and the city [is] pure gold, similar in appearance to pure glass.