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 called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.

But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me."

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.

Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.

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.

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.

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?'

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

"Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth"-- let Israel now say--

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!'

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.

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.

And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."

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.

Not comforted

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.

I will lay

At the king's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

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.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,

The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass.

General references

The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.