Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.

New American Standard Bible

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,
And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.

King James Version

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

Holman Bible

“Poor Jerusalem, storm-tossed, and not comforted,
I will set your stones in black mortar,
and lay your foundations in sapphires.

International Standard Version

"O afflicted one, passed back and forth, and not comforted, Look! I am about to set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

A Conservative Version

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

American Standard Version

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

Amplified


“O you afflicted [city], storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Listen carefully, I will set your [precious] stones in mortar,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.

Darby Translation

Thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, not comforted! Behold, I will set thy stones in antimony, and lay thy foundations with sapphires;

Julia Smith Translation

Thou afflicted, tossed about, not comforted behold me laying thy stones with paint, and I founded thee with sapphires

King James 2000

O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"O afflicted [one], driven away, [who] is not consoled. Look! I [am] about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.

Modern King James verseion

Afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones among antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Behold thou poor, vexed, and despised: I will make thy walls of precious stones, and thy foundation of Sapphires;

NET Bible

"O afflicted one, driven away, and unconsoled! Look, I am about to set your stones in antimony and I lay your foundation with lapis-lazuli.

New Heart English Bible

"You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

The Emphasized Bible

O thou humbled one storm-tossed, uncomforted, - Lo! I, am about to set in antimony, thy stones, And will found thee in sapphires;

Webster

Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

World English Bible

"You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Youngs Literal Translation

O afflicted, storm-tossed, not comforted, Lo, I am laying with cement thy stones, And have founded thee with sapphires,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
O thou afflicted
עני 
`aniy 
Usage: 75

סער 
Ca`ar 
Usage: 7

and not comforted
נחם 
Nacham 
Usage: 108

behold, I will lay
רבץ 
Rabats 
Usage: 30

with fair colours
פּוּך 
Puwk 
Usage: 4

Context Readings

The Fertile Wife Of Yahweh

10 For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you. 11 O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires. 12 I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:2

Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

Exodus 2:23

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

Exodus 3:2

And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.

Exodus 3:7

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

Exodus 24:10

And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.

Exodus 28:17-20

And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;

Exodus 39:10-14

And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;

Deuteronomy 31:17

In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?

1 Kings 5:17

By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

Psalm 34:19

Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

Psalm 129:1-3

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

Song of Songs 5:14

His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

Isaiah 14:32

What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

Isaiah 28:16

For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

Isaiah 49:14

But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.

Isaiah 51:17-19

Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

Isaiah 51:21

So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:

Isaiah 51:23-5

And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

Isaiah 54:6

For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.

Isaiah 60:15

And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.

Jeremiah 30:17

For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.

Lamentations 1:1-2

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

Lamentations 1:16-17

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

Lamentations 1:21

Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

Ezekiel 1:26

And on the top of the arch which was over their heads was the form of a king's seat, like a sapphire stone; and on the form of the seat was the form of a man seated on it on high.

Ezekiel 10:1

Then looking, I saw that on the arch which was over the head of the winged ones there was seen over them what seemed like a sapphire stone, having the form of a king's seat.

Ezekiel 40:1-42

In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.

Matthew 8:24

And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping.

John 16:20-22

Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

John 16:33

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

Acts 14:22

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

Acts 27:18-20

And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship;

Ephesians 2:20

Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

1 Peter 2:4-6

To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

Revelation 11:3-10

And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

Revelation 12:13-17

And when the dragon saw that he was forced down to the earth, he made cruel attacks on the woman who gave birth to the male child.

Revelation 21:18-21

And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.

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