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11 ‘My city, enemies attacked you,
    like a strong storm.
    Nobody was there to help you.
Look! Now I will use beautiful jewels to build you again.
    I will build your foundation with blue sapphires.
12 I will build your strong towers with rubies.
I will build your gates with valuable jewels,
    and I will build your walls with beautiful stones.[a]
13 I, the Lord, will teach your children,
    and peace will fill their lives.

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Footnotes

  1. 54:12 God continues to speak to his special city, Zion (Jerusalem). One day there will be a new city called Jerusalem. That will be a very beautiful place, where God himself lives with his people. See Revelation 21:10-27.

11 “Afflicted(A) city, lashed by storms(B) and not comforted,(C)
    I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,[a](D)
    your foundations(E) with lapis lazuli.(F)
12 I will make your battlements of rubies,
    your gates(G) of sparkling jewels,
    and all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your children will be taught by the Lord,(H)
    and great will be their peace.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 54:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.