Isaiah 54:11

Comfort Discouragement and depression Suffering

⁹ “For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

¹⁰ Though 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.

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

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

¹³ Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
KJV: O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
WEB: “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
ASV: O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
DARBY: [Thou] afflicted, tossed with tempest, not comforted! Behold, I will set thy stones in antimony, and lay thy foundations with sapphires;
BLB: “O afflicted one, tossed with tempest, not comforted! Behold, I am spreading [over] your stones in antimony, and I lay your foundations with sapphires.

ÅB: Du arme som er bortrevet av storm, som ingen trøst har funnet! Se, jeg legger dine steiner i blyglans og bygger din grunnmur med safirer;
OTB: «Du forpinte by, herjet av stormer og uten trøst, jeg vil bygge deg opp med turkiser og legge dine grunnvoller med safirer.
B1930: Du arme som er bortrevet av storm, som ingen trøst har funnet! Se, jeg legger dine stener i blyglans og bygger din grunnmur med safirer;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Peter 2:4–6
As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
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Acts 14:22
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.
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Jeremiah 30:17
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.”
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Isaiah 54:6
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.
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1 Chronicles 29:2
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, turquoise, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and slabs of marble—all in abundance.
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Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
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Exodus 2:23
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.
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Revelation 21:18–21
The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
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