Isaiah 28:16-18

International Children’s Bible

“I will put a stone in the ground in Jerusalem.
    This will be a tested stone.
Everything will be built on this important and precious rock.
    Anyone who trusts in it will never be disappointed.
¹⁷ I will use justice as a measuring line.
    I will use goodness to measure by.
The lies you hide behind will be destroyed as if by hail.
    They will be washed away as if in a flood.
¹⁸ Your agreement with death will be erased.
    Your contract with death will not help you.
When punishment comes,
    you will be crushed by it.