Isaías 28:20

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Porque la cama será demasiado corta para estirarse sobre ella, y la cubierta estrecha para envolverse.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
La cama es muy corta para estirarse en ella, y la manta muy estrecha para envolverse en ella.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Porque la cama es tan angosta que no basta, y la cubierta estrecha para recoger.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Porque la cama es tan angosta que no basta, y la cubierta estrecha para recoger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the bed: Isaiah 57:12, Isaiah 57:13, Isaiah 59:5, Isaiah 59:6, Isaiah 64:6, Isaiah 66:3-6, Jeremiah 7:8-10, Romans 9:30-32, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:7 - and they Isaiah 8:8 - Immanuel Isaiah 30:1 - cover Malachi 2:16 - covereth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it],.... When a bed is short, a man cannot lie at his full length, and at ease:

and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it]; when the bedclothes are narrow a man cannot cover himself with them, so as to be warm and comfortable. These proverbial expressions are interpreted by Kimchi of Jerusalem, when besieged by the Assyrian army, when the inhabitants of it were much straitened, distressed, and made uncomfortable; perhaps it may be better understood of the same city when besieged by the Romans, to which the Jews flocked from all parts, in such numbers, for shelter, that there was not room enough for them, at least not provision, and which was the cause of that great distress and miserable condition they were reduced to: in general, the design of the words may be to show that all refuges and shelters, all means made use of for safety and protection, by which they endeavoured to cover and secure themselves, would be insufficient; and particularly such that laid themselves at ease on the bed of their own righteousness, not submitting to Christ and his righteousness, and covered themselves with the rags of their own doings, and not with the garments of his salvation, would find themselves in a very uncomfortable and unsafe state.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the bed is shorter ... - This is evidently a proverbial saying, and means that they would find all their places of defense insufficient to secure them. They seek repose and security - as a man lies down to rest at night. But they find neither. His bed furnishes no rest; his scanty covering furnishes no security from the chills of the night. So it would be with those who sought protection in idols, in the promises of false prophets, and in the aid which might be obtained from Egypt. So it is with sinners. Their vain refuges shall not shield them. The bed on which they seek rest shall give them no repose; the covering with which they seek to clothe themselves shall not defend them from the wrath of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 28:20. For the bed is shorter — A mashal or proverbial saying, the meaning of which is, that they will find all means of defence and protection insufficient to secure them, and cover them from the evils coming upon them. מסך massek, Isaiah 22:8, the covering, is used for the outworks of defense, the barrier of the country; and here, in the allegorical sense, it means much the same thing. Their beds were only mattresses laid on the floor; and the coverlet a sheet, or in the winter a carpet, laid over it, in which the person wrapped himself. For כהתכנס kehithcannes, it ought probably to be מהתכנס mehithcannes. Houbigant, Secker.