Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

General references

Exodus 10:21
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that darkness may come over the land of Egypt, a darkness which [is so awful that it] may be felt.”
Psalm 18:11

He made darkness His hiding place (covering); His pavilion (canopy) around Him,
The darkness of the waters, the thick clouds of the skies.
Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour (noon) there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.).
Revelation 6:12
I looked when He (the Lamb) broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth [made] of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;