Isaiah 50:3

By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.

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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

In Context

2Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

4The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

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Cross References

Psalms 18:11\18:10\And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

Isaiah 8:22And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 50:2-4

Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Thus saith the Lord , Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the… Read the whole commentary →

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