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Isaiah Chapter 28, Verses 16 and 17 read in the King James Version:
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet; and the hails shall sweep away the refuge of lies. Mercy and truth preserve the king.
The passage with its architectural imagery, and its assertion that those who rely on falsehood will be swept away comes shortly after the account of the destruction of Tyre (Isaiah Chapter 23), the first of the three sea empires of which Venice was the second, and England the third, which may be led ‘through prouder eminence to less pitied destruction’
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]