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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Gill's Exposition
For the Lord shall rise up as in Mount Perazim,.... Where the Lord broke forth on David's enemies the Philistines, as the breach of waters; see Isa 28:17 and destroyed them, from whence the place had…
Barnes' Notes
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…
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…
Cambridge Bible
A proverbial expression for the intolerable situation which the politicians are preparing for themselves and their country.
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