Isaias 28:20
For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.
Challoner: The bed is straitenedIt is too narrow to hold two: God will have the bed of our heart all to himself.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Coangustatum est enim stratum, ita ut alter decidat ; et pallium breve utrumque operire non potest.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- στενοχωρούμενοι· οὐ δυνάμεθα μάχεσθαι, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἀσθενοῦμεν τοῦ ἡμᾶς συναχθῆναι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי קָצַ֥ר הַמַּצָּ֖ע מֵֽהִשְׂתָּרֵ֑עַ וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥ה צָ֖רָה כְּהִתְכַּנֵּֽס
Haydock's commentary
Straitened. It is too narrow to hold two: God will have the bed of our heart all to himself. (Challoner) (1 Corinthians x. 20., and 2 Corinthians vi. 14.) (St. Jerome, &c.)
The Jews explain it of the utmost distress, to which the people would be reduced, so that they would not be able to assist a friend, Amos iii. 12. (Forcr.[Forerius?]) (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.