“The bed is too short
To stretch oneself on it.
The covering is too narrow
To wrap oneself in it.
Yahweh will rise up
As on Mount Perazim.
He will rage
As in the valley of Gibeon.
To do his deed!
Strange is his deed!
To work his work!
Alien is his work!
Now therefore do not scoff!
Your bonds will be made stronger.
I have heard a decree of destruction
From Yahweh God of hosts
Upon the whole land.”
Isaiah explains that your beds will be too short and the covers on your beds too narrow to cover you. This would indicate that he was referring to taller people like giants who could not get a comfortable bed. Yahweh was going to rise in anger as he had done at Mount Perazim and Gibeon. Perazim was a place between Jerusalem and Hebron where King David defeated the Philistines in 2 Samuel, chapter 5 and 1 Chronicles, chapter 14. There it was called Baal-Perazim. Gibeon was a place north of Jerusalem where Joshua defeated 5 kings in Joshua, chapter 10. Yahweh’s work was going to happen, even if an alien had to do it. They were not to be scoffers. Yahweh, God of hosts, had issued a decree of destruction for the whole land.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 