Isaiah 28:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Isa 57:12-13 : 12 I will declare your righteousness and your works; for they shall not profit you. 13 When you cry, let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away, vanity shall take them; but he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
  • Isa 59:5-6 : 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
  • Isa 64:6 : 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 66:3-6 : 3 He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he broke a dog's neck; he that offers an offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations. 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none answered; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight. 5 Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD rendering recompense to his enemies.
  • Jer 7:8-9 : 8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit. 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
  • Rom 9:30-32 : 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith. 31 But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;
  • 1 Cor 1:18-31 : 18 For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish foolishness; but to us who are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; 24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— 31 That, as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

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  • 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

  • 13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,'

  • 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, he shall be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his unusual act.

  • 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, so they have no covering in the cold.

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    33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

    34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • 27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

  • 9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

  • 3 Surely I will not come into the tent of my house, nor go up to my bed;

  • Prov 7:16-17
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    16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

    17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

  • 4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

  • Prov 6:10-11
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    10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • 34 Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast.

  • 18 He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

  • 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

  • Job 22:10-11
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    10 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

    11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain;

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    6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

  • 12 So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • 28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

  • 2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;

  • 17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you.

  • 12 They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

  • 1 Now King David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gained no warmth.

  • 30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

  • 3 The LORD will strengthen him on the bed of illness; You will make all his bed in his sickness.

  • 12 My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • 12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • 27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

  • 17 My bones are pierced in me at night, and my sinews find no rest.

  • 20 Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

  • 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid: yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

  • 20 That you may take it to its boundary, and that you may discern the paths to its home?

  • 8 Behind the doors and the posts you have set up your remembrance; for you have revealed yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them; you loved their bed where you saw it.

  • 9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.

  • 6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • 20 Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • 20 My tent is ruined, and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are no more: there is no one to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat; but how can one be warm alone?

  • 8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

  • 4 He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

  • 7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.