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Isaiah 28:20
For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.
Isaiah 28:20 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Isaiah 28:20 in other translations
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.
Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.
For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
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In context
17 And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its protection.
18 And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.
19 Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.
20 For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.
21 For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is strange to him.
22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.
23 Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.
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