Isaiah 54:11

To the afflicted and uncomforted city, God promises to rebuild it with precious stones and sapphire foundations. It matters because God transforms suffering into surpassing beauty and glory.

Cross-references · 37

• 1 Pet 2:4–6As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
• Jer 30:17But 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 14:22strengthening 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.
• Isa 54:6For 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.
• 1 Chr 29:2Now 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.
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
• Rev 21:18–21The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
• Exod 2:23After 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.
• Isa 51:21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
• Ezek 10:1And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
• Isa 28:16So 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.
• Rev 12:13–17And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
• Isa 14:32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
• Isa 49:14But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
• Lam 1:1–2How 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.
• Isa 60:15Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
• Deut 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
• Eph 2:20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
• Exod 24:10and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
• Acts 27:18–20We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
• Exod 3:2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
• Exod 28:17–20And 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;
• Matt 8:24Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
• Ezek 40:1–42In 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 took me there.
• Lam 1:21People 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.
• John 16:20–22Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
• Isa 51:23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
• Rev 11:3–10And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
• Isa 51:17–19Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
• Ezek 1:26Above 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.
• Exod 39:10–14And they mounted on it four rows of gemstones: The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
• 1 Kgs 5:17And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
• Lam 1:16–17For 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.
• Exod 3:7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
• Ps 129:1–3A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—
• John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
• Song 5:14His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.

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