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

Jehovah will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit; a wife, who married young, only to be rejected, says your God.

Zion replied: Jehovah has forsaken me and Jehovah has forgotten me!

Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes men stagger.

Awake, awake, O Zion, put on your strength. Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.

You have been abandoned and hated. No one has passed through you. But now I will make you a foundation of everlasting pride, a joy for all generations.

Time went by and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God.

There the angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up.

My anger will be kindled against them in that day. I will abandon them and hide my face from them. They will be consumed by many evils and troubles. They will say in that day: 'Is it because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?'

The righteous person has many troubles, but Jehovah rescues him from all of them.

Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say:

I will restore your health and heal your wounds, proclaims Jehovah. People call you an outcast: 'Zion, no one cares for you.'

Truly I tell you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

They strengthened the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith. They said, We must enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation.

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

When the dragon saw that he was thrown to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male-child.

Not comforted

She sits alone. She was a town full of people! Once great among the nations she has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced labor!

I will lay

King Solomon command that they cut fine large stones for the foundation of the Temple.

I have made every effort to prepare materials for the Temple: gold, silver, bronze, iron, timber, precious stones and gems, stones for mosaics, and quantities of marble.

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus is the chief corner stone.

You came to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and precious with God.

The structure of the wall was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

General references

Even the floor was covered with gold.