the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Isaiah 50:3
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I clothe the heavens with blacknessAnd make sackcloth their covering."
"I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering."
As for heauen I clothe it with darknesse, and put as it were a sacke vpon it.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering."
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and sackcloth makes their covering.
I can make the skies dark. I can cover the skies in darkness as black as sackcloth."
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heauens with blackenesse, and I make sackcloth their couering.
As for heauen, I clooth it with darcknesse, and put a sack vpon it.
"I clothe the heavens with the blackness [of storm clouds] And make sackcloth [of mourning] their clothing."
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I can make the skies dark; I can make them black like clothes of sadness."
I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth."
I make the sky turn dark like the sackcloth you wear at funerals."
I dress the heavens in black to mourn and make their covering sackcloth."
I clothe the heauens with darkenesse, and make a sacke their couering.
I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I dress the skies in darkness, covering them with clothes of mourning."
I clothe the heavens with darkness. I make cloth made from hair its covering."
I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with gloom, And, of sackcloth, make I their covering.
I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heavens with darkness, and I make their covering sackcloth."
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering."
"I clothe the heavens with blackness, And make sackcloth their covering."
I can make the sky turn dark, as if it were in mourning for the dead."
I dress the heavens in black and make sackcloth their clothing.
Y schal clothe heuenes with derknessis, and Y schal sette a sak the hilyng of tho.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering."
I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Exodus 10:21, Psalms 18:11, Psalms 18:12, Matthew 27:45, Revelation 6:12
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:28 - the heavens Nahum 1:4 - rebuketh Mark 15:33 - darkness
Cross-References
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I clothe the heavens with blackness,.... With gross and thick darkness; perhaps referring to the three days' darkness the Egyptians were in, Exodus 10:12, or with thick and black clouds, as in tempestuous weather frequently; or by eclipses of the sun; there was an extraordinary instance of great darkness at the time of Christ's crucifixion, Matthew 27:45
and I make sackcloth their covering; that being black, and used in times of mourning; the allusion may be to the tents of Kedar, which were covered with sackcloth, or such like black stuff. The fall of the Pagan empire, through the power of Christ and his Gospel, is signified by the sun becoming black as sackcloth of hair, Revelation 6:12. Jarchi interprets this parabolically of the princes of the nations, when the Lord shall come to take vengeance upon them; as Kimchi does the sea, and the rivers, in the preceding verse, of the good things of the nations of the world, which they had in great abundance, and should be destroyed.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I clothe the heavens with blackness - With the dark clouds of a tempest - perhaps with an allusion to the remarkable clouds and tempests that encircled the brow of Sinai when he gave the law. Or possibly alluding to the thick darkness which he brought over the land of Egypt (Exodus 10:21; Grotius). In the previous verse, he had stated what he did on the earth, and referred to the exhibitions of his great power there. He here refers to the exhibition of his power in the sky; and the argument is, that he who had thus the power to spread darkness over the face of the sky, had power also to deliver his people.
I make sackcloth their covering - Alluding to the clouds. Sackcloth was a coarse and dark cloth which was usually worn as an emblem of mourning (see the note at Isaiah 3:24). The same image is used in 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.’ To say, therefore, that the heavens were clothed with sackcloth, is one of the most striking and impressive figures which can be conceived.
