Isaiah 50:3

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Wherefore, When I came in, was there no one? When I called, was there none to answer? Is mine own hand, really shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or is there not, in me, strength to deliver? Lo! by my rebuke, I dry up the sea I make rivers a desert, Their fish Stinketh, for want of water, Yea dieth, for thirst:

4My Lord Yahweh, hath given unto me the tongue of the instructed, That I should know how to succour the fainting, with discourse,—He kept wakening—morning by morning. He kept wakening mine ear, to hearken as do the instructed;

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Cross References

Psalms 18:11Made darkness his hiding-place, Round about him—his pavilion, Darkness of waters, clouds of vapours.

Isaiah 8:22And unto the land, shall they look hard, And lo! distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, driven away!

Matthew 27:45Now, from the sixth hour, darkness, came 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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