“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships t
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” sa
Now with all my ability I have made provision for the house of my God—gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver,
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their
So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundatio
And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess o
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy fr
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their o
On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be co
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage;
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made you
People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—
And they mounted on it four rows of gemstones: The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drain
Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping.
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth yea
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, b
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 eme
Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high
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.
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
Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to