“O afflicted one!
O Storm-tossed!
O Not comforted!
I am about to set your stones
In antimony.
I will lay your foundations
With sapphires.
I will make your pinnacles
Of rubies.
I will make your gates
Of jewels.
I will make your entire wall
Of precious stones.”
Second Isaiah has Yahweh say that he is making a new Jerusalem with many precious jewels. Jerusalem was the afflicted, storm-tossed, and not comforted city. Now however, the new Jerusalem will have foundations of sapphires. The stones of the city will be set in antimony, a precious metal. The pinnacles will have rubies. The gates themselves will have jewels. The entire wall around Jerusalem will not have just stones, but precious stones. Jerusalem will be truly a jeweled city.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 