Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For the bed is shorter than what a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than what he can wrap himself in it.
New American Standard Bible
And the
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.
Holman Bible
and its cover too small to wrap up in.
International Standard Version
because the bed is too short to stretch out on, and its blankets too narrow to wrap around oneself!
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.
Amplified
For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
And the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself [and likewise all their preparations are inadequate].
Bible in Basic English
For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.
Darby Translation
For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.
Julia Smith Translation
For the spreading was shortened above stretching out, and the covering narrow for hiding one's self.
King James 2000
For the bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself upon: and the covering narrower than he can wrap himself in.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the bed is too short {to stretch out on}, and the covering is [too] narrow when wrapping oneself.
Modern King James verseion
For the bed is shorter than one can stretch himself on, and the cover is narrower than one can wrap himself in.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the bed shall be so narrow that a man cannot lie upon it: And the covering too small, that a man may not wind himself therein.
NET Bible
For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.
New Heart English Bible
For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
The Emphasized Bible
For too short is the couch to stretch oneself out, - And, the coverlet, too narrow, when one draweth up his feet.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
Youngs 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.
Interlinear
Tsarar
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 28:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Cornerstone Of Zion
19 As often as it passes though, it shall take you. For morning by morning it shall pass through, by day and by night. And it shall be nothing but terror to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than what a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than what he can wrap himself in it. 21 For LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
Cross References
Isaiah 57:12-13
I will declare thy righteousness. And as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 59:5-6
They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web. He who eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isaiah 66:3-6
He who slaughters an ox is as he who kills a man. He who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck. He who offers an oblation, [as] swine's blood. He who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yea, they have chosen t
Jeremiah 7:8-10
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Romans 9:30-32
What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.