Isaiah 54:11 ““O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set…”

Isaiah 54:11

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

O thou afflicted and tossed with tempest, that hast no comfort, beholde, I wil lay thy stones with the carbuncle, and lay thy foundation with saphirs,

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

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.

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Cross references

“thou afflicted”

Jeremiah 30:17 Acts 14:22 Isaiah 54:6 Psalm 34:19 Exodus 2:23 Isaiah 49:14

Jeremiah 30:17 · BSB

But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”

Acts 14:22 · BSB

strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

Isaiah 54:6 · BSB

For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.

Psalm 34:19 · BSB

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

Exodus 2:23 · BSB

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

Isaiah 49:14 · BSB

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”

“tossed”

Matthew 8:24 Acts 27:18–20

Matthew 8:24 · BSB

Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping.

Acts 27:18–20 · BSB

We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.

“not comforted”

Lamentations 1:21 Lamentations 1:1 Lamentations 1:2 Lamentations 1:16 Lamentations 1:17

Lamentations 1:21 · BSB

People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

Lamentations 1:1 · BSB

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

Lamentations 1:2 · BSB

She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:16 · BSB

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 1:17 · BSB

Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

“I will lay”

1 Peter 2:4–6 1 Chronicles 29:2 Revelation 21:18–21 1 Kings 5:17 Ezekiel 40:1–42 Ephesians 2:20

1 Peter 2:4–6 · BSB

As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

1 Chronicles 29:2 · BSB

Now with all my ability I have 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 for the settings,…

Revelation 21:18–21 · BSB

The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.

1 Kings 5:17 · BSB

And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

Ezekiel 40:1–42 · BSB

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He too…

Ephesians 2:20 · BSB

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

“sapphires”

Ezekiel 10:1 Exodus 24:10 Exodus 28:17–20 Exodus 39:10–14 Song of Solomon 5:14 Ezekiel 1:26

Ezekiel 10:1 · BSB

And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.

Exodus 24:10 · BSB

and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

Exodus 28:17–20 · BSB

And mount on it a setting of gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;

Exodus 39:10–14 · BSB

And they mounted on it four rows of gemstones: The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;

Song of Solomon 5:14 · BSB

His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.

Ezekiel 1:26 · BSB

Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.

Also

Isaiah 51:21 Isaiah 14:32 Isaiah 28:16

Isaiah 51:21 · BSB

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

Isaiah 14:32 · BSB

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

Isaiah 28:16 · BSB

So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

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