3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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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;
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.
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. …
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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…
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