What will you do on the day of punishment when devastation comes from far away? Who will you run to for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 28:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and its cover too small to wrap up in. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 The bed is too short to stretch out, and the shroud is too narrow to cover oneself. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 For the bed is straitened so that one must fall out: and a short covering cannot cover both. |
What will you do on the day of punishment when devastation comes from far away? Who will you run to for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building.