Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.”

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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 one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

4The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Isaiah 8:22then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Matthew 27:45Now 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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