Isaiah 50:3

Translations

Modern

I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”

Traditional

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

Literal

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

Latin

Induam cælos tenebris, et saccum ponam operimentum eorum.

Original

Hebrew

English

I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”

Notes

Isaiah 50:3

People 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).

Isaiah 50:1–3

This argument shows that God was not forced to abandon Israel. Therefore, he could choose to accept the nation back as his people if he wished.

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Revelation 6:12
And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
Psalm 18:11–12
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
Exodus 10:21
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

Glossary

Black Church Isaiah, Book of New Creation, New Creature Sackcloth

Topics

Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity God: Power of God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jesus, the Christ: Rejected Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning Sackcloth: (Covering the Heavens With) of Severe Judgments

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