Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Not comforted

General references

Bible References

Thou afflicted

Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord has called you,
like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,
a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
says your God.
Isaiah 49:14
Zion says, “The Lord has abandoned me;
The Lord has forgotten me!”
Isaiah 51:17
Wake yourself, wake yourself up!
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk the cup of His fury
from the hand of the Lord;
you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that causes people to stagger.
Isaiah 52:1
“Wake up, wake up;
put on your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
Jerusalem, the Holy City!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.
Isaiah 60:15
Instead of your being deserted and hated,
with no one passing through,
I will make you an object of eternal pride,
a joy from age to age.
Exodus 2:23
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor.
Exodus 3:2
Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.
Deuteronomy 31:17
My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide My face from them so that they will become easy prey. Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’
Psalm 34:19
Many adversities come to the one who is righteous,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.
Psalm 129:1
A song of ascents.Since my youth they have often attacked me—
let Israel say—
Jeremiah 30:17
But I will bring you health
and will heal you of your wounds—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
for they call you Outcast,
Zion whom no one cares about.
John 16:20
“I assure you: You will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to pass through many troubles on our way into the kingdom of God.”
Revelation 11:3
I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 12:13
When the dragon saw that he had been thrown to earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

Not comforted

Lamentations 1:1
How she sits alone,
the city once crowded with people!
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.

I will lay

1 Kings 5:17
The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
1 Chronicles 29:2
So to the best of my ability I’ve made provision for the house of my God: gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx, stones for mounting, antimony, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and a great quantity of marble.
Ephesians 2:20
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
1 Peter 2:4
Coming to Him, a living stone—rejected by men but chosen and valuable to God—
Revelation 21:18
The building material of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold like clear glass.

General references

1 Kings 6:30
He overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

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