Isaiah 50 · Verse 3

Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Isaiah 50:3, King James Version

Isaiah 50:3 in other translations

BSBI clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
WEBI clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.”
ASVI clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
YLTI clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
DARBYI clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
BBEBy me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.
WebsterI clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

What does Isaiah 50:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. heavens ... blackness--another of the judgments on Egypt to be repeated hereafter on the last enemy of God's people (Ex 10:21). sackcloth--(Re 6:12).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

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…

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Isaiah 50:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ'al.BishI clotheH3847
שָׁמַ֖יִםsha.Ma.yim[the] heavensH8064
קַדְר֑וּתkad.RutdarknessH6940
וְשַׂ֖קve.Sakand sackclothH8242
אָשִׂ֥ים'a.SimI makeH7760
כְּסוּתָֽם\׃\ \סke.su.Tamcovering theirH3682

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ex 10:21; Ps 18:11,12; Mt 27:45; Re 6:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

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.

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Isaiah 50:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Visto de oscuridad los cielos, y torno como saco su cobertura.
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.