Isaiah 28:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For 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.

Isaiah 28:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 9:30-32
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. …
Isaiah 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.
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. …
Isaiah 57:12-13
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. …
Isaiah 59:5-6
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. …

Topics

Depravity of Man Guilt Impenitence Infidelity Israel, Prophecies Concerning Materialism Popular Sins Rebellion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-22)

The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and w 6716 ill not suffer either his ordinances or his providences to be brought into contempt. He addressed himself to the scornful men who ruled in Jerusalem, who were the magistrates of the city, Isa. 2…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Proverbial, for they shall find all their sources of confidence fail them; all shall be hopeless perplexity in their affairs.