What will you do in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 28:20 - Tree of Life Version For too short is the bed to stretch on, too narrow the blanket 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 in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
No one calls on Your Name, or stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
The upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and the middle ones in the building.