Isaiah 28:17-19

Common English Bible

¹⁷ I will make justice the measuring line
    and righteousness the plumb line.
But hail will sweep away the hiding place of lies,
    and water will overflow the shelter.
¹⁸ Your deal with death^[a] will be dissolved,
    and your pact with the grave^[b] won’t stand.
The rushing flood: when it passes through,
    you will be annihilated by it.
¹⁹ Every time it passes through it will take you,
    for morning by morning it will pass,
    by day and by night.
    It will be nothing but terror to understand the message.