Isaiah 50:3

I clothe Shomayim with blackness, 1 and I make sackcloth their covering. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Why, when I came, was there no ish (man [at all] to respond)? 1 When I called, was there none to answer? 1 Is My Yad too short, that it cannot redeem? 1 Or have I no ko'ach (power) to save? 1 Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the yam (sea), 1 I make the neharot (rivers) a midbar (desert); 1 their dag (fish) stink, because there is no mayim, 1 and die of tzama (thirst). 1

4Adonoi Hashem hath given Me + 50:4 Moshiach; see 2Sm. 7:5 ; Zech. 3:8 and Isa 52:13 1 the leshon limmudim + 50:4 see 8:16 (learned tongue of disciples), 1 that I should know how to speak a devar (word, i.e., word of consolation) in season to him that is weary; 1 He wakeneth baboker baboker (morning by morning), 1 He wakeneth Mine ozen (ear) 1 to hear as the limmudim (disciples, those being taught). 1

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Cross References

Psalms 18:11And He rode upon a keruv (cherub), and did fly; 1 yea, He soared upon the wings of the ruach. 1

Isaiah 8:22And they shall look unto eretz; and, hinei, tzarah and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Matthew 27:45Now, from the sixth hour, choshech fell upon 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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