thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted] Though thine estate be at present never so forlorn, helplesse and hopelesse; yet will I in time to come make it most glorious. Chap. 51. 17, 18. & 52. 1, 2. I will lay thy stones with fair colours] The spirituall excellency of the Church under Christ, described by an hyperbolicall similitude of a goodly, costly, stately structure. Revel. 21. 11-21. 1 Chronicles 29:2. thy foundations with sapphires] Revelation 21:19.