Isaiah 50:3

As for heauen I clothe it with darknesse, and put as it were a sacke vpon it.

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2For why woulde no man receaue me when I came? and when I called, no man gaue me aunswere? Is my hande shortened that it myght not helpe? or haue I not power to deliuer? lo, at a worde I drynke vp the sea, & of water fluddes I make drye lande: so that for want of water the fishe corrupt and dye for thirste.

4The Lorde God hath geuen me a well learned tongue, so that I can comfort them that are troubled, yea & that in due season: he wakeneth mine eare vp betymes in the mornyng, betymes in the mornyng I say he wyll waken mine eare, that I might hearke as to the schoolemaisters.

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Cross References

Isaiah 8:22And beholde there is trouble and darknesse, dymnesse is rounde about him, & he shalbe driuen into darknesse.

Matthew 27:45Fro the sixth houre, was there darknesse ouer all the lande, vnto the nynth houre.

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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