Isaiah 28:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering is too narrow to wrap oneself 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 will you do on the day of punishment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building.