Isaiah 28:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Isaiah 64:6

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.