Isaiah 28:20
Isaiah 28:18-22 The Message (MSG)
“Then you’ll see that your precious life insurance policy wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. Your careful precautions against death were a pack of illusions and lies. When the disaster happens, you’ll be crushed by it. Every time disaster comes, you’ll be in on it— disaster in the morning, disaster at night.” Every report of disaster will send you cowering in terror. There will be no place where you can rest, nothing to hide under. GOD will rise to full stature, raging as he did long ago on Mount Perazim And in the valley of Gibeon against the Philistines. But this time it’s against you. Hard to believe, but true. Not what you’d expect, but it’s coming. Sober up, friends, and don’t scoff. Scoffing will just make it worse. I’ve heard the orders issued for destruction, orders from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies—ending up in an international disaster. * * *
Isaiah 28:20 King James Version (KJV)
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.
Isaiah 28:20 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in.
Isaiah 28:20 New Century Version (NCV)
You will be like the person who tried to sleep on a bed that was too short and with a blanket that was too narrow to wrap around himself.
Isaiah 28:20 American Standard Version (ASV)
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.
Isaiah 28:20 New International Version (NIV)
The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
Isaiah 28:20 New King James Version (NKJV)
For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
Isaiah 28:20 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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].
Isaiah 28:20 New Living Translation (NLT)
The bed you have made is too short to lie on. The blankets are too narrow to cover you.