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Isaiah 54:11–12

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54:11“O afflicted one, driven away,16 and unconsoled!

Look, I am about to set your stones in antimony

and I lay your foundation with lapis-lazuli.

54:12I will make your pinnacles out of gems,17

your gates out of beryl,18

and your outer wall19 out of beautiful20 stones.

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Isaiah 54:11: ...O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Footnotes

  1. 16 Or, more literally, “windblown, storm tossed.”
  2. 17 Perhaps, “rubies” (so , , , , ).
  3. 18 On the meaning of אֶקְדָּח (’eqdakh), which occurs only here, see
  4. 19 Heb “border” (so ); “your entire wall.”
  5. 20 Heb “delightful”; “pleasant.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted,

behold, I will set your stones in antimony,

and lay your foundations with sapphires.

I will make your pinnacles of agate,

your gates of carbuncles,

and all your wall of precious stones.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,

I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,

your foundations with lapis lazuli.

I will make your battlements of rubies,

your gates of sparkling jewels,

and all your walls of precious stones.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Poor Jerusalem, storm-tossed, and not comforted,

I will set your stones in black mortar,

and lay your foundations in lapis lazuli.

I will make your fortifications out of rubies,

your gates out of sparkling stones,

and all your walls out of precious stones.

NLTNew Living Translation

“O storm-battered city,

troubled and desolate!

I will rebuild you with precious jewels

and make your foundations from lapis lazuli.

I will make your towers of sparkling rubies,

your gates of shining gems,

and your walls of precious stones.

LEBThe Lexham English 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.

And I will make your battlements of ruby,

and your gates of stones of beryl,

and all your wall of precious stones.

KJV 1900King 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.

And I will make thy windows of agates,

And thy gates of carbuncles,

And all thy borders of pleasant stones.