Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 54:1-17
Sec. 3. MESSIAH AND THE GOSPEL, Isaiah 52:11 to Isaiah 55:13. Thus far in this chapter is treated the case of an exalted Church passing, step by step, through suffering and deliverances into the purity of the typical holy Zion; from this point the view is turned again to the “Servant” of Jehovah, through whom the prophet has seen the Church to be redeemed. The portrait of a suffering servant is here filled out in detail, as a side-piece (Delitzsch) to the liberation and deliverance of... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 54:11
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 — Who hast been, in a most afflicted and comfortless condition.With sapphires — I will make thee exceeding beautiful and glorious, by a plentiful effusion of excellent gifts, and graces. read more