OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 20

Isaiah 28:20

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For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

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Isaiah 28:17–23

17

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

18

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

19

As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

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For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

21

For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

22

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, GOD of Armies, on the whole earth.

23

Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

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