Isaiah 28:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ For the bed shall be too short for a man to stretch out on, and the covering shall be too narrow to wrap himself in it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For [they will find that] the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself on and the covering too narrow for him to wrap himself in. [All their sources of confidence will fail them.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ The bed is too short to stretch out, and the shroud is too narrow to cover oneself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For the bed has been narrowed, so much so that one alone would fall out, and the short blanket is not able to cover two.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ For the bed is straitened so that one must fall out: and a short covering cannot cover both.

Isaiah 28:20 Cross References

Isaiah 10:3

“What shall you do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin which comes from afar? To whom would you run for help? And where would you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 64:6

And all of us have become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as soiled rags. And all of us fade like a leaf, and our crookednesses, like the wind, have taken us away.

Ezekiel 42:5

And the upper rooms were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle levels of the building.