Parallel Verses

Amplified


“I clothe the heavens with the blackness [of storm clouds]
And make sackcloth [of mourning] their clothing.”

New American Standard Bible

“I clothe the heavens with blackness
And make sackcloth their covering.”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I dress the heavens in black
and make sackcloth their clothing.

International Standard Version

I clothe the skies with darkness and make sackcloth their covering."

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Bible in Basic English

By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

I will put darkness upon the heavens, and I will put sackcloth their covering.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

I clothe [the] heavens [with] darkness, and I {make} their covering sackcloth."

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

As for heaven, I clothe it with darkness, and put as it were a sack upon it.

NET Bible

I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth."

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

I clothe the heavens with gloom, And, of sackcloth, make I their covering.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I clothe
לבשׁ לבשׁ 
Labash 
Usage: 111

the heavens
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

with blackness
קדרוּת 
Qadruwth 
Usage: 1

and I make
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

שׂק 
Saq 
Usage: 48

References

American

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Israel's Sin And The Servant's Obedience

2
“Why, when I came, was there no man [to greet Me]?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Is My hand really so short that it cannot redeem [My servants]?
Or have I no power to rescue?
Listen carefully, with My rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers into a desert;
Their fish stink because there is no water
And die of thirst.
3 
“I clothe the heavens with the blackness [of storm clouds]
And make sackcloth [of mourning] their clothing.”
4
The Lord God has given Me [His Servant] the tongue of disciples [as One who is taught],
That I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple [as One who is taught].

Cross References

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;

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 18:11-12


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.).

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