Isaiah 28:20
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.
KJV
Coangustatum est enim stratum, ita ut alter decidat ; et pallium breve utrumque operire non potest.
Vulgate
στενοχωρούμενοι· οὐ δυνάμεθα μάχεσθαι, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἀσθενοῦμεν τοῦ ἡμᾶς συναχθῆναι.
LXX
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.
ASV
כִּֽי קָצַ֥ר הַ/מַּצָּ֖ע מֵֽ/הִשְׂתָּרֵ֑עַ וְ/הַ/מַּסֵּכָ֥ה צָ֖רָה כְּ/הִתְכַּנֵּֽס
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הִשְׂתָּרֵ֑עַ
hshtr'
verb · 3×
י
y
verb · 53×
כְנוֹס֙
knvs
verb · 11×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מַסֵּכָ֖ה
mskh
noun · 28×
מַּצָּ֖ע
mts'
noun · 1×
תִּקְצַ֥ר
tqtsr
verb · 51×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:18 — For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
- Isa 57:12 — I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
- Isa 59:5 — They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
- Isa 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
- Isa 66:3 — He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he
- Jer 7:8 — Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
- Rom 9:30 — What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.