¹⁴ If you people would respect him, he would be a safe place^[a] for you. But you don’t respect him, so he is like a stone that you stumble over. He is a rock that makes both families of Israel fall. He has become a trap that all the people of Jerusalem will fall into.

¹⁶ Because of these things, the Lord God says, “I will put a rock—a cornerstone—in the ground in Zion. This will be a very precious stone.^[a] Everything will be built on this very important rock. Anyone who trusts in that rock will not be disappointed.^[b]