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

"Indeed, the Lord will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected," says your God.

"Zion said, 'The Lord has abandoned me, the sovereign master has forgotten me.'

Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you, which was full of his anger! You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine.

Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, holy city! For uncircumcised and unclean pagans will no longer invade you.

You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked -- and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!

At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time, 'Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?'

The godly face many dangers, but the Lord saves them from each one of them.

A song of ascents. "Since my youth they have often attacked me," let Israel say.

Yes, I will restore you to health. I will heal your wounds. I, the Lord, affirm it! For you have been called an outcast, Zion, whom no one cares for."

I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.

They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, "We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions."

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.

Now when the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

Not comforted

(Alef)Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer!

I will lay

By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple's foundation with chiseled stone.

So I have made every effort to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.

because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God's sight,

The city's wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

General references

He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out.