Isaiah 50:3

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

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.

4The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:11He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Isaiah 8:22and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.

Matthew 27:45Now from [the] sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until [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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