Isaiah 50:3

Isaiah 50:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
• New International Version (NIV)I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth its covering.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering."
• New King James Version (NKJV)I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering.”

Context of Isaiah 50:3

1Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 4The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed. 5The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not away back.

Isaiah 50:3 word by word

אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ שָׁמַ֖יִם קַדְר֑וּת וְשַׂ֖ק אָשִׂ֥ים כְּסוּתָֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

• clotheלָבֵשׁlâbash lâbêsh · to clotheH3847
• heavensשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
• makeשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: makeH7760
• sackclothשַׂקώaq · sackclothH8242
• coveringכְּסוּתkesûth · coveringH3682

Cross-references for Isaiah 50:3

• Exodus 10:21And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness in the land of Egypt — so that one may feel darkness.
• Psalms 18:11He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
• Matthew 27:45Now from [the] sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until [the] ninth hour;
• Revelation 6:12And I saw when it opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as hair sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood,

Commentaries on Isaiah 50:3

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3I 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3People connected events like darkness and wearing mourning clothes with the day of the Lord (Isaiah 13:10; see study note on Isaiah 2:5–22). The mention of darkness might refer to the plague of darkness in Egypt (Exodus 10:21).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. heavens ... blackness--another of the judgments on Egypt to be repeated hereafter on the last enemy of God's people (Ex 10:21). sackcloth--(Re 6:12).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 50

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings