◄ Isaiah 50:3 ►
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Good News Translation
I can make the sky turn dark, as if it were in mourning for the dead."

New Revised Standard Version
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.

Contemporary English Version
I make the sky turn dark like the sackcloth you wear at funerals."

New American Bible
I clothe the heavens in black, and make sackcloth their covering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Exodus 10:21 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt.

Psalm 18:11,12 And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air. . . .

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

Revelation 6:12 And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.

Context
Israel's Sin
…2Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst. 3I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.
Cross References
Revelation 6:12
And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.

Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.

Jeremiah 4:28
The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above: because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither am I turned away from it.

Isaiah 50:2
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