Isaiah 54:11

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;” the Most High himself will establish her.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them.

You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

A day to build your walls— In that day, he will extend your boundary.

Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,

But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.