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


In Context

17 And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its protection.

18 And Sour league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.

19 Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.

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

21 For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is strange to him.

22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the 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 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.

The American 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.