Isaiah 50:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

More versions

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.

Isaiah 50:3 Cross References

Exodus 10:21

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

and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 4:28

For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back.”

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

Revelation 6:12

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