Isaiah 50:3
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Isaiah 50:3 in other translations
| BSB | I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.” |
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| WEB | I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.” |
| ASV | I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. |
| YLT | I clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering. |
| DARBY | I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. |
| BBE | By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe. |
| Webster | I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. |
What does Isaiah 50:3 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 50:1-3
The rejection of the Jews. (Is. 50:1-3) The sufferings and exaltation of the Messiah. (Is. 50:4-9) Consolation to the believer, and warning to the unbeliever. (Is. 50:10,11) Verses 1-3 Those who have professed to be people of God, and seem to be dealt severely with, are apt to complain, as if God had been hard with them. Here is an answer for such murmurings; God never deprived any of their advantages, except for…
Isaiah 50:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 50:3
- Revelation 6:12
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
- Psalms 18:11-12
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
- Exodus 10:21
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
- Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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Context
- Isaiah 50:2
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 rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
- Isaiah 50:3
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
- Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Isaiah 50:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Visto de oscuridad los cielos, y torno como saco su cobertura. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je revêts les cieux de noirceur, et je leur donne un sac pour couverture. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich kleide die Himmel in Schwarz und mache Sacktuch zu ihrer Decke. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Induam cælos tenebris, et saccum ponam operimentum eorum. |