Isaiah 50:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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,