20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.


In Context

17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.

19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined on the whole earth.

Isaiah 28:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it:] and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it. ]

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

28:20The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering can- not cover both.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:20For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:20For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:20For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.