Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
not comforted—by anyone; none gave her help or comfort.
lay . . . with fair colours—rather, "lay . . . in cement of vermilion" [LOWTH]. The Hebrew for "fair colors" means stibium, the paint with which Eastern women painted their eyelids and eyelashes (II Kings 9:30). The very cement shall be of the most beautiful color (Revelation 21:18-21).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 54:11:
Ezekiel 20:37
Revelation 21:19
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