O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
O thou afflicted ... not comforted - by any one; none gave her help or comfort.
Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours - rather, lay ... in cement of vermilion' (Lowth). The Hebrew ( puwk (H6320)) for "fair colours" means stibium, the paint with which Eastern women painted their eyelids and eyelashes (2 Kings 9:30). The very cement shall be of the most beautiful colour (Revelation 21:18-21).