Isaiah 54:11

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Summary

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

Thou afflicted

Not comforted

Lamentations 1:1

I will lay

Revelation 21:18

General references

1 Kings 6:30

Bible References

Thou afflicted

For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.

But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.

Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.

And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.

In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?

Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.

Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

And when the dragon saw that he was forced down to the earth, he made cruel attacks on the woman who gave birth to the male child.

Not comforted

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

I will lay

By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.

General references

And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.