Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the sky with darkness; I cover it with sackcloth.” 1

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

In Context

2Why did I come but there was no one there? Why did I call but no one answered? 1 Was my hand too short to ransom you? Was there no power in me to rescue you? 1 Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert; 1 their fish die for lack of water and rot. 1

4The Lord Yahweh has given me a tongue as one of those who are taught, 1 so that I speak a sustaining word to the weary one; 1 he wakes me morning by morning; he awakens my ear to hear like those who are taught. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 18:11He made darkness a tent around him, heavy rainclouds in the skies. 1

Isaiah 8:22They will look at the earth 1 and see distress, darkness, and oppressive gloom. They will be driven into a land of darkness.

Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour darkness came 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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