Isaiah 28:15-17

International Children’s Bible

¹⁵You say, “We have made an agreement with death.
    We have a contract with death.
When punishment passes by,
    it won’t hurt us.
We will be safe with our lies.
    We will hide behind our tricks.”

¹⁶Because of these things, this is what the Lord God says:

“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.
¹⁷I 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.