Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
⛓ Read Isaiah 28 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The tested foundation stone in Zion, with judgment as a flooding waters that sweeps away the refuge of lies, supplies the rock-foundation-versus-flood contrast. Moderate Volume; the foundation/flood pairing is apt.
Medium confidenceGod lays a tested foundation stone; hail sweeps away the refuge of lies, waters overflow the shelter — the secure foundation vs. the false refuge swept by flood.
Medium confidence