Isaiah 50:3

I can make the heavens go dark, covering them with sackcloth like they're in mourning.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2When I came, why wasn't anyone there? When I called, why didn't anyone answer? Is it because I don't have the strength to save you, or the power to rescue you? Can't you see that if I order it, the sea will dry up? I can turn rivers into a desert. Their fish stink because they've died of thirst since there's no water.

4The Lord God has given me the ability to teach others, to know how to encourage those who are exhausted with a word. He wakes me up every morning; he helps me listen as a disciple.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:11He hid himself in darkness, covering himself with black thunderclouds.

Isaiah 8:22Then they will look towards the earth and see only misery and gloom and agonizing depression, and they will be thrown out into the darkness.

Matthew 27:45From noon until three o'clock darkness covered the whole country.

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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