"I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering." — Isaiah 50:3

Isaiah 50:3 · KJV

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

— Isaiah 50:3

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.

Verse 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.

Isaiah 50 — Context

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.

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

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

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;

Psalms 18:11-12

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

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. {even...: Heb. that one may feel darkness}

Matthew 27:45

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