Isaiah 54:11

Isaiah 54:11 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)“Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with lapis lazuli.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, and not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with sapphires.

Context of Isaiah 54:11

9“For this is like the days of Noah to me: when I swore that the water of Noah would never flood the earth again, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you. 10Though the mountains move and the hills shake, my love will not be removed from you and my covenant of peace will not be shaken,” says your compassionate Lord. “Poor Jerusalem, storm-tossed, and not comforted, I will set your stones in black mortar, and lay your foundations in lapis lazuli. 12I will make your fortifications out of rubies, your gates out of sparkling stones, and all your walls out of precious stones. 13Then all your children will be taught by the Lord, their prosperity will be great,

Isaiah 54:11 word by word

עֲנִיָּ֥ה סֹעֲרָ֖ה לֹ֣א נֻחָ֑מָה הִנֵּ֨ה אָנֹכִ֜י מַרְבִּ֤יץ בַּפּוּךְ֙ אֲבָנַ֔יִךְ וִיסַדְתִּ֖יךְ בַּסַּפִּירִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• O thou afflictedעָנִי‛ânîy · afflictedH6041
• tossed with tempestסָעַרsâ‛ar · to rageH5590
• not comfortedנָחַםnâcham · to be sorry: comfortH5162
• behold, I will layרָבַץrâbats · to stretchH7257
• thy stonesאֶ֫בֶן'eben · stoneH68
• with fair coloursפּוּךְpûk · antimonyH6320
• and lay thy foundationsיָסַדyâsad · to foundH3245
• with sapphiresסַפִּירsappîyr · sapphireH5601

Cross-references for Isaiah 54:11

• Isaiah 54:6For the Lord has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” says your God.
• Isaiah 49:14Zion says, “The Lord has abandoned me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
• Isaiah 51:17Wake yourself, wake yourself up! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk the cup of his fury from the Lord’s hand; you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs — the cup that causes people to stagger.
• Isaiah 52:1“Wake up, wake up; put on your strength, Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer enter you.
• Isaiah 60:15Instead of your being deserted and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an object of eternal pride, a joy from age to age.
• Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.
• Exodus 3:2Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.
• Deuteronomy 31:17My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide my face from them so that they will become easy prey. Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’
• Psalms 34:19One who is righteous has many adversities, but the Lord rescues him from them all.
• Psalms 129:1Since my youth they have often attacked me — let Israel say —
• Jeremiah 30:17But I will bring you health and will heal you of your wounds — this is the Lord’s declaration — for they call you Outcast, Zion whom no one cares about.
• John 16:20Truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.
• Acts 14:22strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.”
• Revelation 11:3I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”
• Revelation 12:13When the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who had given birth to the male child.
• Matthew 8:24Suddenly, a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves — but Jesus kept sleeping.

Commentaries on Isaiah 54:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Behold, I will lay thy stones "Behold, I lay thy stones" - These seem to be general images to express beauty, magnificence, purity, strength, and solidity, agreeably to the ideas of the eastern nations; and to have never been intended to be strictly scrutinized, or minutely and particularly explained, as if they had each of them some precise, moral, or spiritual meaning. Tobit, in his prophecy of the final restoration of Israel, describes the New…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11O thou afflicted - In the previous verses, Yahweh had merely promised protection, and had in general terms assured them of his favor. Here he shows that they should not only be defended, but that his church would rise with great beauty, and be ornamented like a most splendid palace or temple. This is to be regarded as addressed primarily to the exiles in Babylon near to the close of their seventy years‘ captivity. But nothing forbids us to apply it to the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-17Verses 11-17 Let the people of God, when afflicted and tossed, think they hear God speaking comfortably to them by these words, taking notice of their griefs and fears. The church is all glorious when full of the knowledge of God; for none teaches like him. It is a promise of the teaching and gifts of the Holy Spirit. All that are taught of God are taught to love one another. This seems to relate especially to the glorious times to succeed the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11The Lord himself would rebuild the city (see Hebrews 11:10). Sapphires are a semi-precious stone.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. not comforted--by anyone; none gave her help or comfort. lay ... with fair colours--rather, "lay ... in cement of vermilion" [Lowth]. The Hebrew for "fair colors" means stibium, the paint with which Eastern women painted their eyelids and eyelashes (2Ki 9:30). The very cement shall be of the most beautiful color (Re 21:18-21).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 54:11

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Church
• Righteous
• Sapphire
• Stones

In the dictionaries

• Cord
• Stones, Precious
• Architecture
• Color; Colors
• Ethics
• Fair
• Glistering
• Isaiah
• Lay; Laying
• Poor

Commentaries on Isaiah 54

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings