Isa 54:11 | JFB | STEP | 11. 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 ( ). The very cement shall be of the most beautiful color ( ).

Isaiah 54:11

11. 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 (2Ki 9:30). The very cement shall be of the most beautiful color (Re 21:18-21).