Isaiah 50:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ I clothe the heavens with [the] blackness [of murky storm clouds], and I make sackcloth [of mourning] their covering.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Common English Bible

³ I clothe the heavens with darkness and cover them with funeral clothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ I will clothe the heavens in darkness, and I will make sackcloth their covering.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ I will clothe the heavens with darkness and will make sackcloth their covering.

Isaiah 50:3 Cross References

Exodus 10:21

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 8:22

or they will look to the earth, but they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 4:28

Because of this the earth shall mourn and the heavens above grow black, for I have spoken; I have purposed; I have not relented, nor will I turn back.

Matthew 27:45

From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Revelation 6:12

When he broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,