Isaiah 50:3

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

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Wherefore, when I came, was no man at hand? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand too short to redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, And make the rivers a desert. Their fish putrefy for want of water, And die with thirst.

4The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the learned, That I might know how to strengthen with my words them that are weary; He wakeneth me every morning, He wakeneth mine ear, That I may hear in the manner of the learned.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:11And he made darkness his covering; His pavilion round about him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Isaiah 8:22And if they look to the earth, Behold distress and darkness, fearful darkness! And into darkness shall they be driven.

Matthew 27:45And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the 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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