Isaiah 50:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.””
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BSBPD
“I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“I clothe the heavens <FI>with<Fi> blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Isaiah 50:3 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 10:21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
- Psalms 18:11He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
- Psalms 18:12From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
- Matthew 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
- Revelation 6:12And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
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