Isaiah 50:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Isaiah 50:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;
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.
Psalms 18:11-12
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. …
Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Colors God Guidance Lord Majesty Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

Those who have professed to be the people of God, and yet seem to be dealt severely with, are apt to complain of God, and to lay the fault upon him, as if he had been hard with them. But, in answer to their murmurings, we have here, I. A challenge given them to prove, or produce any evidence, that the quarrel began on God’s side, Isa. 50:1. They could not say that he had done them any wrong or had…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. 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).