Isaiah 28:20
World English Bible (WEB)
For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
In context
18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
21 For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
22 Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, GOD of Armies, on the whole earth.
Isaiah 28:20 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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 .