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 hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drank at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

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

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their cry ascended to God, by reason of the bondage.

And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall 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 delivereth him out of them all.

A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

For I will restore health to thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: and ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

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

And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who brought forth the male-child.

Not comforted

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary.

I will lay

And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to he made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx-stones, and stones to be set, glittering stones, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone;

To whom coming as to a living stone, disallowed indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious,

And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

General references

And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.