John Trapp on Isaiah 54:11

Ver. 11. O thou afflicted, toſſed with tempeſt, and not comforted] This is the Churches ſtile and ſtate in this preſent life: Eccleſia eſt haeres crucis. Luth. None out of hell have ſuffered more than Saints.

Behold I will lay thy ſtones with fair colours] So that thou ſhalt be a City of pearl, having for thy foundation the Lord Chriſt, 1 Cor. 3.11. for thy windows, the holy Prophets,Dan. 12.3. Apoſtles and other faithful Preachers, by whoſe miniſtry thou ſhalt receive the light of true knowledge; and for thy walls and gates the divine protection. See Rev. 21.11.—21. All this is to be underſtood of the ſpiritual excellency of the Church, which is begun in this life, and to be perfected in the life to come.

And lay thy foundations with Saphirs] Confer Exod. 24.10. where Moſes and the Elders are ſaid to have ſeen the God of Iſrael; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a Saphir-ſtone, and as it were the body of heaven in its clearneſſe: To ſhew that God had now changed their condition, their brickes made in their bondage to Saphir, their lying and ſooting among the pots into the wings of a Dove covered with ſilver, and her feathers of pure gold, as Pſal. 68.13.