Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 54:11

"O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires." — Isaiah 54:11 (ASV)

O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Built with jewels.

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,

Where are you? Have you come in here to seek the consolation you cannot find anywhere else? Then see how God lays himself out to comfort you; he has put into human language the true sympathy for you that he feels in his heart; and again he says to you, O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,

Behold, I will lay thy stone, with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

You will have done with the rough tossing of the troubled sea; and you will come to land, — to a royal city which has foundations of sapphire, — to a king's palace where even the stones will be stained with rich vermilion such as only princes use in their costly buildings: I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.