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Isaiah 50:3

God's power and sovereignty

1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

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.

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

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.

5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
KJV
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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.
DARBY
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
BLB
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
ÅB
jeg klær himmelen i sort og innhyller den i sørgedrakt.
OTB
Jeg dekker himlene med mørke og bruker sekkelerret som deres dekke.»
B1930
jeg klær himmelen i sort og innhyller den i sørgedrakt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 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;

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  • Psalms 18:11–12

    He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

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  • 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.

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  • Matthew 27:45

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

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