The House That Will Stand

 A House of Lies

14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem! 

15 Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge and in falsehood we have taken shelter." 

16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'He who believes will not be in haste.' 17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter." 

18 Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it. 19 As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message. 

20 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it. 21 For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed--strange is his deed! and to work his work--alien is his work! 

22 Now, therefore, do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts upon the whole land.

Isaiah 28:14-22

A Song of Ascent

3“I will not enter the house where I live,a nor lie on the couch where I sleep;

4I will give my eyes no sleep, my eyelids no rest,

5Till I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

6“We have heard of it in Ephrathah;* we have found it in the fields of Jaar.*

7Let us enter his dwelling; let us worship at his footstool.”b

8“Arise, LORD, come to your resting place,c you and your mighty ark."
Psalm 132: 3 -- 8


You must hope because God's goodness is immense.
-St. Pio of Pietrelcina