15. You 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.”
16. Because 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.
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.
19. Whenever punishment comes, it will take you away.It will come morning after morning.It will defeat you by day and by night.Those who hear of this punishment will be terrified.”