Isaiah 50:3
What does Isaiah 50:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 50:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862I clothe the heavens <FI>with<Fi> blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Context
v.2Wherefore, 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
v.3This passage
v.4The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Revelation 6:12
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
- Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
- Psalms 18:11
He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Exodus 10:21
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
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